Yet greatly Jack’s discovery his auditors did shock, Sir,
For they dreaded that the Salmon would be eat up by the Croc. Sir:
When presently the Crocodile, their consternation crowning,
Raised its head above the waves, and cried, “Help! O Lord, I’m drowning!”
Heavens! how their hair, Sir, stood on end, from the parson to the barber;
To find a Speaking Crocodile had got into the harbour.
This dreadful exclamation appall’d both young and old, Sir,
In the very stoutest hearts, indeed, it made the blood run cold, Sir;
Ev’n Jack, the hero of the Nile, it caus’d to quake and tremble,
Until an old wife, sighing, cried “Alas! ’tis Stephen K——.”