Library:The Weasel in the Granary II

Miss weasel with a body land and long,

Crept to a granary through narrow hold;

She had been sick, but there she soon got strong,

For there she rioted without control.

She gnawed and ate and ample share,

Nor did the hams and bacon spare;

In fine, such happy cheer she found,

She soon got fat, full-faced, and round.

A few days after, full of dinner-fare,

She hard a noise, and sought the hole again;

But all her efforts to get out were in vain.

"Im quite surprised," she said; "this hold, I know,

I passed through, sure, five or six days ago!"

A rat, who saw her in her trouble, said,

"Your body was then lankly like your snout;

You entered lean, and lean you must get out."

This case applies to many, I'm afraid;

But let us not such things confound,

By diving into matters too profound.

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