Water vole, if you don't mind, <br />although rats scull strongly. <br />Everything was ship-shape then, <br />boating with a book <br />and a hamper, and company. <br /> <br />But these days I'm boarded up. <br />Stoats are bad enough, <br />but their transatlantic cousins <br />think I'm a Big Mac on legs. <br />In this neck of the woods, it's getting rough.<br /><br />Richard George<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ratty-and-mink/
