715 : George and the Dragon, the remake.

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: crisis, gripe, stall.

Not sure why I went down the dragon line.

Perhaps it was due to the comments to the previous post.

With a guest appearance by Miss Osner's dachshunds.

George and the Dragon

An alternative account.

They left in a fanfare of enthusiasm

With laughter, cheers and snickers

Some people threw long paper streamers

Some women threw their knickers.

The group consisted of a gallant crew,

Each ready to do what they must,

They had tents and beds and socks and pans,

And a hose, to settle dust.

Their leader was a well known knight

On a beautiful snow white horse.

He thought he was God’s gift to man

And to the girls, of course.

The rest of this merry but motley band

Was a bunch of erstwhile rebels;

A banker, a dancer, several accountants

And two dachshunds called Oskar and Pebbles.

They soon encountered a serious glitch,

A crisis of the nastiest kind:

In the rush to mount the expedition

They’d left their cook behind.

So what to do?  They’d a dragon yet to find

But still they had to eat.

But none have ever entered a kitchen

So had no taste for heat.

“If I have one gripe”, the banker said,

“It’s the lack of decent cheese” 

“Who needs a cook to prepare your meals

If you have bread and ripened bries?”

“I smell burning”, an accountant claimed

“Is someone trying to grill?”

“Well, it’s me!” a large and scaly dragon said

Have you writ and filed your will?”

“Yikes!” the band exclaimed in deep dismay

“We never saw you sitting there!

Please don’t flame grill our wretched team

It would be terribly unfair!”

The dragon was loath to stall his feast

He fancied a nice barbecue;

The team were not so keen with this

And pondered what to do.

At last they talked to the dragon’s team

And a deal was finally forged;

A simple vote then settled the deal

And the dragon was well fed, 

By George.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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