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The Cat in the Hat at Crush Depth

by

Bruce



The sub would not go on that cold dark day,
The sub would not go with Nelson away.
But someone had to
Make the sub go you see,
So Crane picked two someones:
Kowalski and me.

So we crawled through the air ducts, Kowalski and I,
The sparks they were flying, the water knee high.
It was then that 'Ski saw him
He said "Chip, look at that!"
It was then that I saw him,
The Cat in the Hat!

He said: Have no fear,
Mr. Pem sent me here
He decided your sub had to stop here, my dear.
I said to the Cat: "But the sub has to go, I have to say Dive!"
The cat said "Do that now and none will survive!"
And he vanished, he did with a swish of his hat
and Kowalski said "Chip, what do we do with that?"
And he pointed right there to a big big red box
The box had a clock and the clock went tick tock.

We looked at the box, Kowalski and I
We needed to do something or Seaview would die.
I opened the box and looked at the mess
There were wires and clangers and a merman's old vest!
There were some all in red and some all in blue
And some were all in pickle color too.
And there in the middle, all glowing and new
were seven Bitsy Big Boy Boomeroos!

I said to Kowalski "We need the new cutters
and some goo to cover some sparks that will sputter"
He gave me the pliers and he manned the spray
and Kowalski and I managed to save the day.
I cut the blue wire, I cut the one green
while Kowalski sprayed goo in the space in betweeen.

We picked up the box, and crawled back to the door
And there Capt. Crane said "There has to be more!
That bomb would have demolished the Seaview it's true
but I don't think that would stop us from moving, do you?"
So we got back in the air duct and then headed aft
Where a puppet was waiting, and it said with a laugh
"So I never go to be Nelson, too bad
Now you've found our bomb, that makes me real mad!
The Professor said we had to watch out for you two
and now that I've found you, I know what to do!"
Well, we didn't sit there and let the puppet win
I whipped out a laser and did the puppet in!
He went up in flames with a small quiet shout
and burned for 25 minutes, about.

The we kept moving back to where the engines were idle
and hoped to see how to fix Seaview pronto.
We got to the grate and we both peered about
and there were the Lobstermen milling about
They had the Chief tied so he couldn't even mutter
and it looked like they were about to dip him in butter!

So we jumped into the room, used our laser again,
while Kowalski ran over and untied our friend.
The Chief hobbled over to the circuitry panel
and threw a switch that made the monsters cry like a spaniel.
They vanished in a puff of monster colored smoke.
Sharkey said "Almost everything they touched now is broke"
But with a little more time, and Patterson's help
we can get this boat moving and not sit on the shelf.

So we opened the door where Crane had been stopped
and together we patche up the stuff they had dropped
We wired together the reactor room cables
And even fixed Cookies dining room tables.

Then it was back to the control room, the Captain and I
Where the men stood and looked us in the eye.
"Let's get the boat moving, let's look alive!"
Said Crane as I gave the order to dive
I said "Dive, Dive, flood negative, all dive!"
and it was all done, before I could even count five.

We set off for the Institute to give our report
When the Captain said "Wait!" and brought me up short.
Should we tell Nelson the truth?
Now what should we do?
Well what would you do, if Nelson asked you?