To Hindoostan, the elephant, an' hippopotamus he gev,
The alligator, crocodile,
The simple vulture too,
The divil for Tasmania, the 'possum, an' the parakeet,
He brought out to Osthreelia, with the boundin' kangaroo.
He left the Isle of Man the last, an' gev a three-legged cat that passed
One day, beneath a fallin' mast, an' cut her tail in two!
The only thing he missed, in this regard of all the captain done,