Double Row Teeth Giants
In the eighteen hundreds some double-teethed skeletons were found.
In California, Ireland, Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, truly all around.
Were they humans? Many children ask as I begin to tell the tale.
Human-like, possibly giants or ogres, I admit, twelve-foot-tall, right Gale?
Gale is my assistant and is horrified by the way I throw out the truth.
It is more fun to have her than it was to ever enlist my old aide, Ruth.
In Minnesota seven skeletons with double rowed teeth were undug.
They were buried upside down, I add, taking a swig of ale from my mug.
In 1833 in Lompock Rancho, California they dug up a twelve-foot king.
Sporting double teeth, a crown, a toe, ear and belly button ring.
Now Gale knows I am embellishing. She shakes her head at me.
They were known as Formorians to the Irish, ogres, I say with glee.
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