I love my rat so tenderly,
He is so gentle, don’t you see?
He guards my slumbers every night,
To keep me from the slightest fright.
No lions or ferocious bears
Can steal upon me unawares,
For there is such a noise in here
’Twould fill their cruel hearts with fear.
I love my rat, if he should die
Great tears of anguish I would cry.
Here is a particularly admired effort. It appealed to every member of
our community on account of its spirited and militant sentiment. They
say I wrote it. Undoubtedly it will appear in evidence against me in
case of a new trial—hearsay evidence is “great stuff”: