Gertrude McFuzz

There once was a girl-bird named Gertrude McFuzz
And she had the smallest plain tail ever was.
One droopy-droop feather.That's all that she had.
And, oh! That one feather made Gertrude so sad.
For there was another young bird that she knew.
A fancy young birdie named Loola-Lee-Lou,
And instead of one feather behind, she had two !
Poor Gertrude! Whenever she happened to spy
Miss Lolla-Lee-Lou flying by in the sky,
She got very jealous. She frowned. And she pouted.
Then, one day she got awfully cross and she shouted:
" This isn't fair ! I have one ! She has two !
I must have a tail just like Lolla-Lee-Lou ! "
So she flew to her uncle, a doctor named Dake
Whose office was high in a tree by the lake
And she cried, " Uncle Doctor ! Oh, please do you know
Of some kind of a pill will make my tail grow? "
" Tut tut ! " said the doctor. " Such talk! How absurd !
Your tail is just right for your kind of a bird "
Then Gertrude had tantrums. She raised such a din
That finally her uncle, the doctor, gave in
And he told her just where she could find such a pill
On a pill-berry vine on the top of the hill.
"Oh, thank you !" chirped Gertrude McFuzz, and she flew
Right straight to the hill where the pill-berry grew.
( Dr.Seuss - Clever creatures )