Crocodilly

Mostly they is crocodilly but some be alligator that favor the crocodilly. Right now the place have a high scent but don’t let these animals worry you none, Mr. Bernard. I’m gon’a fumigate this place and paint it up, pretty, pretty.

“Mama, someone’s knocking at the back door,” Tommy-Blue called out. / Everyone in the room paused to listen. / Everyone except one. “I’m a crocodilly!” Punky squealed. / “Shhh, Punky . . . listen!” Corrie and Dola cautioned at the same time.

Only Walt, who with the others had by then arrived, wouldn’t eat the Callaloo Stew with Frizzled Chicken. ‘You don’t eat your friends with a knife and spoon,’ he explained with dignity. / ‘He’d never eat a crocodilly neither,’ supposed Cuth.

“Don’t know. One of them turtles, maybe.” / “A plesie?” I said. “Are you sure?” / Davy shifted from one foot to the other. “Well, it could be a crocodilly. I never knowed the difference.”

“We used rocks and bottles, but could not kill the crocodilly.” / “Yeah. They’re thick-skinned bastards.”

Kindly affectioned and unselfish to the bitter end, did the dying saurian once again lift up his crocodilly voice, now faint and tinny with the hollowness of dissolution, and cry, “Avaunt, good Saracen, avaunt! Bide further afield, lest peradventure, in the tantrums of death, I cleave thy skull with my scaly tail. But, oh! for the love of Him that made us both, speak no more so despitefully of crocodile tears”—and he wept aloud.

I love your lovely slender neck / And legs so slim and tall, / Because I’ve only scaly ones / And not a neck at all. / And if you will not marry me / (The worst of all my fears) / I’ll waste away and cry a sea / Of crocodilly tears.

It is amazing how hook-up leads and jump leads can tangle, even mate with each other, no matter how carefully you coil them and stow them away. Anyfing wiv a crocodilly clip on t'end comes alive and grabs mouthfuls of cable in any order or fashion, that takes hours to unravel.

(You remember? –:›Crocodilly tears‹?