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Book no.1
Mosquito Lou Long

Mosquito Lou

 

Mosquito Lou saw what he saw

Through the grass, through the straw

Outside the woods where the critters dwell

 

Mosquito Lou buzzed and flew

From his pond to say what he knew

Something he had to tell

 

He went to tell the turkey

But the turkey would swing and swat the closer he got

Chased him out of the way

 

He flew up to the ear of the woodland deer

But the woodland deer didn’t want to hear

What a mosquito has to say

 

Went up to the eagle in the eagles nest

But the eagle squaked and called him a pest

And gave him an eagle smack

 

He went to the rabbit that came out his den

But when the rabbit saw, that’s just when

He turned around and went back

 

The grizzly bear told him to shew

When he buzzed in his ear to say what he knew

The monkeys did the same

 

Mosquito Lou would scream and shout

But none of the beasts would hear him out

They brushed him off the closer he came

 

So…

 

Mosquito Lou buzzed back to his pond

Outside of the trees, just beyond

There where the woods begin

 

He flew out, he flew out fast

As he flew out, he flew just past

The hunters heading in

 

The critters were wrong, the critters were rude

But they didn’t deserve to be someone’s food….

They didn’t deserve to die

 

So Mosquito Lou flew, with no time to spare

To warn those hunters that they should beware

They just smacked him down as he flew by

 

Soon, the treetops echoed with screams and howls

There were bangs and pops, screeches and growls

Troubling sounds that were scary and grim

 

Mosquito Lou knew there was only one way

To save all the critters being hunted that day

And he knew it was up to him

 

Mosquito Lou went to Mosquito Bob

Mosquito Bob gathered a mosquito mob

They went from one to two to quite a few

 

Mosquitos got the bees and the bees got the tick

The tick called more pests that bite and prick

Soon Mosquito Lou had his own crew

 

Meanwhile…..

 

Bear jumped in rabbit’s hole, trying to hide

Monkeys grabbed the eagle to catch a ride

But the monkeys were too heavy to lift

 

Eagle went down as he tried to escape

Falling through spider webs as sticky as tape

Until he was wrapped like a gift

 

Rabbit jumped under the deer

But the woodland deer was so full of fear

He started dropping droppings

 

So rabbit screamed and then he fled

Straight to the river with droppings on his head

To clean off those dropping toppings

 

With hunters in sight, Turkey was full of fright

So he climbed a pine tree and held it tight

In the gluey sap, his feathers got stuck

 

When the hunters got close, he was so afraid

He pulled away, but his feathers stayed

Plucked out in one big pluck

 

The hunters were coming from each direction

Leading the critters to a certain section

A section of the woods where they’d be trapped

 

As the critters watched those hunters coming

They shivered and shook, their hearts were drumming

Bushes rustled and branches snapped

 

The hunters approached, and as they were nearing

They walked past the brush into the clearing

Past the last of the sticks, the last of the trees

 

When they made it through, there flew Mosquito Lou

Mosquito Lou and his entire crew

Mosquitos and gnats, ticks and bees

 

Instead of the critters they were looking to find

There was a cloud of pests of the worst kind

A pesky, angry, munchy bunch

 

Together as a swarm with perfect form

Bugs rained on the hunters in an insect storm

And started eating them as their lunch

 

Ticks bombed from the sticks, bees struck like torpedoes

Those hunters got pricks from 1000 mosquitos

While poison oaked grabbed up from the ground

 

Buried in bugs from their toes to their head

The Hunters were seized, so the critters fled

They fled back to the woods, safe and sound

 

The forest hummed, the forest was fizzy

The forest buzzed with the bugs so busy

Mosquitos whizzed, the bees were bumbling

 

The hunters could barely stand on their feet

Like giant ragdolls, made out of meat

They tried to escape, tripping and stumbling

 

Through the woods, the hunters ran for their lives

Turning puffy and red, swelling up with hives

Floundering along as they screamed and grunted

 

Out from those woods, the hunters raced

As Mosquito Lou’s crew followed and chased

The hunters became the hunted

 

The hunters never returned after that morning

If they had listened to Mosquito Lou’s warning

They would have been alright

 

The hunters didn’t consider, they didn’t expect

A little mosquito with woods to protect…

Mosquito Lou, the woodland knight.

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