Friendly Rat

I had a fishermen brother, who wasn't scared

Of rats. 50 one day while out fishing, he snared

A big wharf rat. He kept him as a family pet, scaring Brothers and sisters half to death.

Then one day his mother said, "enough fun release

That rat and let him run”. Back to sea brother did go, And let the rat swim to and fro. Then slow/y he cut

The rope away, and his friend the rat just swam away. Next day at sea the rat appeared, he jumped in the

Boat, he had no fear.

That evening when the boat sailed in, brother and Friendly came home again.

Mother said "son, that rat must go", so back to the

North Block, brother walked slow.

Down hearted and blue, he said to his friend, swim

Away mighty fast, before the tide comes in.

Next day out fishing, he found his friend, dead in a lobster Trap he had just hauled in. He laid him in his southwester And said ”amen", _ and watched him

disappear in the cruel sea again.

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