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- From: jbrett@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Jon.)
- Subject: Horace Poem
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:53:52 GMT
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- (from MP's big red book).
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- Horace
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- Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
- Horace ate himself one day.
- He didn't stop to say his grace,
- He just sat down and ate his face.
- "We can't have this!" his Dad declared,
- "If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
- But even as he spoke they saw
- Horace eating more and more:
- First his legs and then his thighs,
- His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
- "Stop him someone!" Mother cried
- "Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
- But all to late, for they were gone,
- And he had started on his dong...
- "Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns
- "You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
- Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
- But H. was on his second sauce:
- His liver and his lights and lung,
- His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue;
- "To think I raised him from the cot
- And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
- His mother cried: "What shall we do?
- What's left wont even make a stew..."
- And as she wept, her son was seen
- To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
- And there he lay: a boy no more,
- Just a stomach on the floor ...
- None the less, since it was his
- They ate it - that's what haggis is. *
-
- *No it isn't. Ed. Haggis is a kind of stuffed black pudding eaten by the
- Scots and considered by them to be not only a delicacy but fit for human
- consumption. The minced heart,liver and lungs of a sheep, calf or other
- animal's inner organs are mixed with oatmeal, sealed and boiled in maw in
- the sheep's intestinal stomach-bag and ...
- Excuse me a minute. Ed.
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