to the tune of "Just a Song at Twilight:"

When the swamp is quiet, When the moss hangs low
tum-tee-tum - tee-tum-tum, When the water moves slow
That's the time to sing softly, Lay your head down awfully,>br> Stick your head in the mud.

-- favorite lullaby of those long-tailed, sharp-toothed, yellow-eyed alligators from Thatcher Hurd's book, *Mama Don't Allow.*

Any virtual gin and limeade around this joint? Tanqueray, preferably.

I am feeling very mellow after doing a bunch of old-timey stuff last weekend. It is my mission in life to see that children do not forget how to play "In and out the window," "A-tisket a-tasket," etc.

Kat, how did you know about the Green Man and me??

Did I get the line break thing right?