The reptile, you’ll pronounce him green.”
“Well, then, at once to ease the doubt,”
Replies the man, “I’ll turn him out:
And when before your eyes I’ve set him,
If you don’t find him black, I’ll eat him.”
He said; then full before their sight
Produc’d the beast, and lo! ’twas white.
Both star’d, the man look’d wondrous wise—
“My children,” the Camelion cries,
Then first the creature found a tongue,