Like serpents now, we’re slyly creeping,

Then on our prey like tigers leaping.

In a twinkling we garotte him—

No escape when so we’ve got him.

While on him there is a stopper,

We clean him out of every copper.

Stick unto him till we bag

All he has to the last mag;

His body then, by way of ransom,

We seize and squeeze out something handsome.