"Caractacus the Crab" poem by an unknown boy poet of 9 Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of a recital of poem called "Caractacus the Crab" written and recited by an unknown boy poet of approximately 9 years of age. The poems theme will be familiar to most of us who were once small boys as it evokes memories of the dreadful things young boys do to crabs and other poor creatures found on the beach,though in the instance of this poem the crabs demise is apparently by accident. The interesting name of Caratacus a play on the word "cracked" as in shell comes from (Brythonic *Caratācos, Greek Καράτακος; variants Latin Caractacus, Greek Καρτάκης) was a historical British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest. The legendary Welsh character Caradog ap Bran and the legendary British king Arvirargus may be based upon Caratacus. This a relatively early example of a recording of a child poet reciting their work recorded in the early 1960's Children are not particularly well represented in archival recordings reading their poetry,other than perhaps reciting nursery rhymes. The wellbred precise diction of the boy reader sounds rather Victorian to me so I have used a photograph of an unknown Victorian boy of similar age as the visual image of the reader in this virtual movie. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on thisc video recording copyright Jim Clark 2009