The Fangly Snafferdoo

Come now children, get in line

To see our shiny Zoo

Where in the cardboard cage resides

The Fangly Snafferdoo

Half submerged in swampy filth

It's fanglies snaffed and done

The Snafferdoo it cools itself

By lying in the Sun

Even still the story's told

Of islands far away

The tale of mighty hunters come

The Snafferdoo to slay

Across the ocean's stormy calm

Their mighty ship it sailed

If seas had been the least bit salt

Their voyage might have failed

Midst boiling magma icicles

Frozen by the flames

The Snafferdoo played Tic-Tac-Toe

And other friendly games

Said the hunters, "Hold ye there!"

"We've come to shoot you dead!"

"But if you'll just come back with us"

"We'll make a buck instead"

Now Snafferdoos are fearsome beasts

And not the sort to trust

This one couldn't see by day

And had to wait for dusk

For in the lands beyond the sea

Of strange and saltless tides

The sun shines brightly all night long

And then by day it hides

The beast it bared it's fangly fangs

And bragged that anyone

Who beat it fair at Battleship

It's capture would have won

The hunting party soon agreed

This contest was the way

And sent one of their own to fetch

The box so they could play

They spent some time in setting up

Before they could begin

By hiding all their ships they thought

The contest they could win

Each time the beast attacked

To hit a hunter's ship, it did

For it could read their minds to see

Just where their ships were hid

And when the hunters lost it seemed

the Snafferdoo was free.

But when it won it offered them

Best two out of three

Twice it lost on purpose

So it came back to their ship

Playing checkers with the captain

For the whole returning trip

And lying there within our Zoo

It's thoughts you'd never guess

It's made it's life's ambition

To beat the world at chess.

See Also

• Interpretations of The Fangly Snafferdoo