The Ryme Of The Ancient Tinbender

Or How The Albatross Became

A Goat

Tis an ancient tinbender

and he stoppeth one of three

By the long grey beard and glittering eye

now wherefore stopp'st me?

Well bub the reason I stopped you was to tell you about my friend the albatross.

When I went to the great city of Washington my job was to care for the three birds.

MY job was to help care for the Martin,hummingbird and the albatross

Partly because the martin and hummingbird were so much prettier. the albatross was not the queen of the fleet and beause i could take the albatross all over the national airport i would volunteer to give her the daily shake down.

I had to take her way to the weeds to do our duty so before I departed I would exclaim " I am taking the albatross to the weeds"

At some point I realized that big birds don't care for weeds so I started saying "I am taking the goat to the weeds or pasture"

Surprisingly this caused a furor at other units when they found out what was going on in D.C. defaming our glorius albatross,letters to flight lines and all sorts of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

After a while things quieted down and all of the sudden I noticed that our seabird was changing to a land animal and suddenly one day I saw...................................

What happened I do not know my son but the albatross was gone and the goat reigned what funny folks us mortals be.

OK now will somebody get this dumb bird off of me? Pleese..................................

: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ultra-Condensed

Ancient Mariner I am creepy and old.

Listen to me.

Wedding Guest I'm late,

but I'll listen.

Ancient Mariner I killed an albatross.

Then everyone died.

THE END

These are the facts Jack !!!!!!!!!!!