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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37138" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ravenous Bill</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! a terrible glutton was "Ravenous Bill,"<br> Mate of the good ship "Whippoorwill;"<br> And seldom it was he could get his fill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A fact he oft would mention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And many a time, when eating his beef,<br> Would the captain tell him to "take a reef;"<br> But to such requests he ever was "deaf,"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This being a bone of contention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He cheated the sailors out of their prog,<br> Nor left e'en a scrap for the captain's dog:<br> He was such a gourmand and terrible "hog,"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> That he'd" eat you out of your house."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He thought no more of a leg of ham,<br> A peck of potatoes, and shoulder of lamb,<br> With all the "fixin's," — wine, jellies, and jam,-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Than a cat would think of a mouse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> At length, on distant Southern sands<br> The vessel was stranded; and all the hands<br> Were captured by some of the savage bands</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who lived on that foreign coast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Poor Bill was taken among the rest,<br> And became at once a cannibal's guest;<br> (No pleasant position, it must be confessed,<br> To wake up some morning already " dressed"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For a native's " fancy roast.")</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For want of rations Bill had grown thin,-<br> Nothing, in fact, but bones and skin;<br> And his heathen master (as ugly as sin,<br> To find he'd so badly been " taken in")</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Devised a horrible plan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To wit: a bamboo cage he'd make,<br> And put in Bill, with a monstrous snake<br> Called the anaconda, that could easily " take"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Most any "reasonable" man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> At last 'twas finished, — the cage was done;<br> The snake was captured, — a monstrous one:<br> The natives assembled to see the " fun,"<br> And "settle their Bill" they said, as a pun,<br> "Referring to the "collation."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Our hero was thrust into the cage<br> Where the snake was coiling itself with rage,<br> Eager and waiting its prey to engage,—<br> An engaging occupation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> As Bill and the snake met face to face,<br> He was folded at once in its close embrace;<br> And the natives, thinking he'd "ran his race,"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Began on his fate to ponder;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When — what d'ye suppose first met their eyes<br> As the dust from the scene did slowly rise,<br> They found that Bill, to their great surprise,<br> Had SWALLOWED THE ANACONDA!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><div class=q>
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