<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Diggers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bristling Billy the porcupine,<br>A person that nobody liked,<br>Sinking a shaft on an ant-bed mine,<br>Came on a burrowing lizard's line,<br>And the lizard was badly spiked.<br>'You're a blundering fool,' said the snake's half-brother,<br>And that was how one thing led to another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary Willie the wombat king<br>Said he was champion excavator;<br>But the Bristler said, 'You ain't no such thing;<br>You couldn't dig up a new pertater!'<br>So a match was made on their mining skill,<br>Bristling Billy and Weary Will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both of the creatures were stout as steel,<br>With knife-like claws that could dig for ever.<br>The wombat dug with the greater zeal,<br>But he hadn't the style or the action clever<br>Of Bristling Billy, who looked a winner<br>Till he struck some ants, and he stopped for dinner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down where the ants had hid their young<br>Underground in a secret tunnel,<br>Scooping them up with his sticky tongue<br>Into his mouth that was like a funnel:<br>'Why should I dig for your wagers scanty,'<br>Said he, 'when I'm feeling so full and ant-y?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A kangaroo who has lost his cash<br>Was wild at this most absurd come-uppance.<br>'Now listen, you poor ant-eating trash,<br>I'd give you a kick in the ribs for twopence!'<br>'Well, when I've finished with this here diet,'<br>Said Bristling Billy, 'you come and try it.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bristling Billy the porcupine,<br>A person that nobody likes,<br>Wanders away on his lonely line,<br>Rattles his fearful spikes.<br>Says he, 'There's none of you long-haired squibs<br>Is game to give me a kick in the ribs.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344095" data-title="The Diggers de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Bristling Billy the porcupine, A person that nobody liked, Sinking a shaft on an ant-bed mine, Came on a burrowing lizard's line, And the lizard was badly spiked. 'You're a blundering fool,' said the snake's half-brother, And that was how one thin..."></div> </div> </div>

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