THE WICKED ZEBRA, by Frank Roe Batchelder

The zebra always seems malicious,—

He kicks and bites ’most all the time;

I fear that he’s not only vicious,

But guilty of some dreadful crime.

The mere suggestion makes me falter

In writing of this wicked brute;

Although he has escaped the halter,

He wears for life a convict’s suit.