The Tale of Lorgil Hill

by Jones and Lambert

[Below are pages 21 through 25 of an ongoing tale. For pages 16 through 20, go back!]

The Brock Rats then set their sights to the sea,

for the purpose of foreign policy.

They met the Otters’ quaint ecosystem

with staunchly militant jingoism.



Because the foreign Otters were scary,

the solution was the military.

Boss Brock Rat rigged names in a conscript bag,

with those named forced to flaunt a stick and flag.



To destroy the Otters they so deplore,

the Brock Rats deployed a preemptive war.

To finalize the pogrommatic purge,

the Boss sent an overwhelming stick surge.



Foreign war had depleted the coffer —

the Brock Rats had nothing left to offer.

Gone were the goods that nourished public health:

the shrooms and trees of past shared commonwealth.



[Page 25 on the way!]