Two rail pert sma't ellicks, fresh frum Smif's Normal School,
Figgahed dey maik sport ob me, played me fo' a fool;
Tuk me to Parkah's Garden, whar dey keeps de Bears,
Elephants, an' Tigahs, Lines an' Billjen Hares.

We seen a Hipinpotomus, we seen a tall Giraff,
An' heaps ob ringtail monkies an' Hyenahs dat laff:
Den nex' we spied a critah astan' in' mouchin' hay,
De boys called him a Zebra frum doun in Africay.

Den dey side glanced each uddah, thor dey had me right,
'Cast dair fly' fo' suckahs an' etspected me to bite.
But 'ste'd, I looked him obah, frum his head to his tail,
An' I seed plain he's jes a hoss, doin' time in jail.