Charles Follen Adams

“ Poor Bill was taken among the rest, And became at once a cannibal's guest; (No pleasant position, it must be confessed, To wake up some morning already " dressed" For a native's " fancy roast.") For want of rations Bill had grown thin,- Nothing, in fact, but bones and skin; And his heathen master (as ugly as sin, To find he'd so badly been " taken in") Devised a horrible plan. To wit: a bamboo cage he'd make, And put in Bill, with a monstrous snake Called the anaconda, that could easily " take" Most any "reasonable" man. ”