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BEELA BY THE SEA

Catch a floater, catch an eel,

Catch a lazy whale,

Catch an oyster by the heel

And put him in a pail.

There's lots of work for Uncle Ike,

Fatty Ford and me

All day long and half the night

At Beela by the sea.

[NOTES] This rhyme is about the fishermen who live at Beela. It is about what the fishermen take out of the sea when they fish all day and into the night.

to catch fish—to get on a fish line

floater—fish

eel—long snake like fish

lazy—not moving much

whale—huge, huge fish

oyster—a sea being that lives inside a shell

heel—round back part of a foot

pail—plastic bucket that holds water