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PostPosted: 06/19/10 4:11 pm • # 1 
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On their voyage of discovery,
Of privation and cartography,
The sailors said to Captain Cook,
"Come over here and have a look.
We've caught a creature with a pouch
That leaps and springs and seems to crouch.
Its head is small, its ears are long.
Its legs and tail are thick and strong."

No-one knew what the creature was.
Some men were sent ashore because
Animals must have a name
(And the natives knew the game).

Meanwhile, the captive pushed and shoved,
Was given leather boxing-gloves.

The men returned, trusty and true,
»They tell us it's a kangaroo.«

(The truth emerged much later when,
On trips by less resourceful men,
The Aborigines told those who'd come to stay
That kangaroo meant What did you say?)


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