StNicholas [serial] . Once on a time there wasa boy, the bravestever known;He had a bear, a lion, and a tiger, all his kept them in his nursery, and that boy, I do declare,Would boldly face the lion and the tiger and the day he proudly spake to them: Well may you crouch and cower!O mighty beasts, your fate is sealed; I have you in my ere I send you to your doom, to you I 11 kindly stateWhy on your unprotected heads must fallthis direful fate. They tell me, when you roam at large within the jungle glade, You eat up passing travelers who in your haunts have Th
StNicholas [serial] . Once on a time there wasa boy, the bravestever known;He had a bear, a lion, and a tiger, all his kept them in his nursery, and that boy, I do declare,Would boldly face the lion and the tiger and the day he proudly spake to them: Well may you crouch and cower!O mighty beasts, your fate is sealed; I have you in my ere I send you to your doom, to you I 11 kindly stateWhy on your unprotected heads must fallthis direful fate. They tell me, when you roam at large within the jungle glade, You eat up passing travelers who in your haunts have They say you vedined on manymen, perhaps aboy or two, But there s a pos-sibility these tales may not be true. So one last chance I 11 give you yourdefamers to defy: I 11 set you free if you their accusationscan deny. When the lion and the tiger and the bear this offer heard,They sat in sober silence and they never said a word. Ha! cried the boy, you cannot saythese stories are not true;Then tit for tat! Justice demands, myfriends, that I eat you! The shamefaced beasts could not deny that this was only fair,So that boy ate up the tiger and the lion and the bear!
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