XI We’re the rats on the island of Borneo,
We never had it so good-heigh-de-ho.
When the cats who had swallowed the geckoes lay dying,
We crawled in by thousands from forests outlying.
     When the farmers saw us, they raised and angry cry:
     “Rats bring plague! Fly in help, or we will surely die.
     Help us, men of science, help us kill the rats;
     For the DDT you sprayed has killed off all our cats!”
“Borneo for rent,” we sang. “Inquire, please, within.
When the cats die off from DDT, we rats-move-in.”




And then the helicopters came...

 

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