I
Now Tillie Tatler, as you know,
Had
very second sight,
Though oftentimes phrophesies
Did
not come out aright.
Still there is not a bit of doubt
She
saw the things she told,
And once she saw them they were
quite
Too
much for her to hold.
II
If some disaster were to fall
On
dear old Talegeree,
She must needs warn the neighbors
all
So
they prepared would be.
For tiny Tillie Tatler thought
Her
duty first of all,
Although she gained the enmity
Of
neighbors great and small.
III
One early morn, at half-past nine,
She
left her love abode
Where she had seen a “vision”
clear,
And
hurried down the road.
She told the townsmen there would
come
A
flood of mighty size
And fill with water all the earth
Up
to the very skies.
IV
She told them to start in at once
And
build them all some boats,
And put their families aboard,
And
all their cows and goats.
And so they started in to build
Odd
craft of every size
And every now and then would gaze
Into
the threatening skies.
V
The price of lumber went so high
Some
couldn’t build at all;
They had to make as best they could
A
raft quite plain and small
Umbrellas, too, were “all sold
out”,
And
rubber coats as well;
In fact in all of Talegree
There
nothing was to sell.
VI
One day a little shower came,
But
soon cleared off again,
And weeks have passed in Talegeree
Without
a sign of rain.
They raved at Tillie, but she found
Protection
in her gaol;
And now each man in Talegeree
Has
got a “Boat For Sale”.
May
28, ‘08
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