(The Tale Of) Private John Colter

In days long past,

There was word of a creature roaming the American lands

A fearsome beast – half rabbit, half deer

Now that creature was known by the name of the Jackalope

First sighted by Private John Colter in 1806

Tales of the baneful critter soon became legend

Amongst those to choose a life in fear over gruesome death

As the years passed by

And reliable evidence proved to be a thing of peculiar rarity,

Jackalopes were presumed dead

Or nothing more than the foolish babblings of loners and madmen

In 1813, John Colter died a healthy man of barely 40 years.

Now some claimed Jaundice to be the cause of his sudden death

But let me tell ya, a body was never found