Said the otter to his daughter, "Daughter, don't go near the water." Said his daughter to her pater, "I'm an otter, not a squatter." Should he slap or maybe swat her? Suppose a rotter otter spot her? A slicker swain, a surly plotter, A cad, a reputation-blotter? The more he thought, he grew the hotter. But all he said? "You shouldn't oughter." William D. Barney