The CrocodileA crocodile once dropped a lineTo a Fox to invite him to dine;But the Fox wrote to sayHe was dining, that day,With a Bird friend, and begged to decline.She sent off at once to a Goat.“Pray don’t disappoint me,” she wrote;But he answered too late,He’d forgotten the date,Having thoughtlessly eaten her note.The Crocodile thought him ill-bred,And invited two Rabbits instead;But the Rabbits replied,They were hopelessly tiedBy a previous engagement, and fled.Then she wrote in despair to some Eels,And begged them to “drop in” to meals;But the Eels left their cardsWith their coldest regards,And took to what went for their heels.Cried the Crocodile then, in disgust,“My motives they seem to mistrust.Their suspicions are base,Since they don’t know their place,—I suppose if Imuststarve, Imust!”
A crocodile once dropped a lineTo a Fox to invite him to dine;But the Fox wrote to sayHe was dining, that day,With a Bird friend, and begged to decline.
A crocodile once dropped a lineTo a Fox to invite him to dine;But the Fox wrote to sayHe was dining, that day,With a Bird friend, and begged to decline.
She sent off at once to a Goat.“Pray don’t disappoint me,” she wrote;But he answered too late,He’d forgotten the date,Having thoughtlessly eaten her note.
She sent off at once to a Goat.“Pray don’t disappoint me,” she wrote;But he answered too late,He’d forgotten the date,Having thoughtlessly eaten her note.
The Crocodile thought him ill-bred,And invited two Rabbits instead;But the Rabbits replied,They were hopelessly tiedBy a previous engagement, and fled.Then she wrote in despair to some Eels,And begged them to “drop in” to meals;But the Eels left their cardsWith their coldest regards,And took to what went for their heels.
The Crocodile thought him ill-bred,And invited two Rabbits instead;But the Rabbits replied,They were hopelessly tiedBy a previous engagement, and fled.
Then she wrote in despair to some Eels,And begged them to “drop in” to meals;But the Eels left their cardsWith their coldest regards,And took to what went for their heels.
Cried the Crocodile then, in disgust,“My motives they seem to mistrust.Their suspicions are base,Since they don’t know their place,—I suppose if Imuststarve, Imust!”
Cried the Crocodile then, in disgust,“My motives they seem to mistrust.Their suspicions are base,Since they don’t know their place,—I suppose if Imuststarve, Imust!”