BEASTLY TALES - A WASTED OPPORTUNITY

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Welcome to Beastly Tales. Each has a message, a moral. All are meant to have an element of humour. Naturally, any names included do not depict real folk but are included as part of the joke.

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(As with Beastly Banter Beastly Tales is written and illustrated by Richard Hersel.)

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BEASTLY TALES

A WASTED OPPORTUNITY

From the “Git-Go” he was a spoilt brat,
Born with a silver spoon, and a top hat.
So to speak, so much superior to the rest,
He never wanted to be better, only the Best!
Of course, his contemporaries, never could compete.
Their “cups” were only half-full, not complete.
Horatio Hogwash was the son of the Earl of Chamois
And he well knew he was a most privileged boy!
His father, the Earl, rich as King Midas, was happy,
To note Horatio’s leadership qualities, even in his nappy!
He kept nurses and nannies on the run,
Demanding, demanding, it was so much fun!

Horatio had his own sports car when he was only three,
It was a pedal car modelled on a sleek Bugatti!
Nothing second-rate for Horatio, the heir,
For the Earldom of Chamois, a throne, not a chair.
As he grew in his informative years,
He increasingly looked down on his school peers.
He had strong feelings for only himself,
No compassion for the poor, the weak, those in poor health.
He enjoyed blood sports, the sport of kings,
Bravely killing little birds, and sometimes bigger things.
A noble beast on Africa’s Veldt,
Not caring a jot, how his victim’s felt!
He gloried in photographs, him with poor things he had shot,
In faraway countries, where it was hot!

Greedy and cruel, a “gentleman” indeed,
Self-indulgence and rapacity were his creed.
He squandered his life, doing damage to others,
Surrounding himself with idiots, and other self-lovers.
Until one day, now obese, old and sickly,
He realized how his life had passed by so quickly.
“What do I have to show for it all?”
“Nothing good. Zilch! How it does appal!”

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"Bravely killing little birds, and sometimes bigger things," What a pig! I would say he got the ending that he deserved!

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