🦆 I WISH THAT I HAD DUCK FEET 🦆

Today, I'm going to read

I wish that I had duck feet by Theo Lesieg

and illustrated by B. Tobey.

And it's a Doctor

Seuss book.

Shall We Begin.

I wish that I had duck feet

and I can tell you why.

You can splash around in duck feet.

You don't have to keep them dry.

I wish that I had duck feet. No more shoes, no shoes for me.

The man down at the shoe store would not have my size you see.

If I had two duck feet I could laugh at big Bill Brown,

I would say you don't have duck feet. These are all there are in town.

I think it would be very good to have them

when I play. Only kids with duck feet on can ever play this way.

My mother would not like them.

She would say. Get off my floor.

She would say, You take your duck feet and you take them out that door. Never come in here again with duck feet on, now don't.

So, I guess I can't have duck feet. I would like to

but I won't.

So if I can't have duck feet, I'll have something else instead.

Say I know what I wish I had two horns up on my head.

I wish I had two deer horns. They would be a lot of fun.

Then I could wear ten hats up there.

Big Bill can just wear one.

I think they would be very good to have

when I play ball. Then nobody could stop me, nobody at all. My horns could carry books and stuff

like paper pens and strings and apples for my teachers

and a lot of other things.

But if I had big deer horns,

I would never get a ride.

I could never ride the school bus

I could never get inside.

And so, I won't have deer horns. I'll have something else

instead. I wish I had a whale spout, a whale spout up on my head. When days get hot

it would be good to spout my spout in school

and then Miss Banks would say, You keep our school so cool. I could play all day in summer.

I would never feel the heat.

I would beat Big Bill at tennis. I would

play him off his feet. My mother would not like it.

I know just what she would say.

Not in the house.

You shut that off

You take that spout away.

I know that she would tell me. I don't want

that spout about. And when mother does not want a thing. It's O U T

it's out. And so I will not have one.

I don't wish to be a whale.

I think it would be better if I had a long

long tail.

I wish I had a long long tail. Someday,

I will I hope. And then I'll show the kids in town

new ways to jump a rope.

If I had a long

long tail,

I know what I would like

I would like to ride down

State Street pulling girls behind my bike.

I wish I had a long long tail

and I can tell you why. I could hit

a fly 10 feet away and hit

him in the eye. I know

Miss Banks would like this

she would smile and she would say, No other boy in town

can you hit a fly so far away. But,

if I had a long long tail,

I know that big Bill Brown would tie me in a tree, he

would. Then how would I get down?

I don't think that I would like it with my tail

tied in a tree.

The more I think about it.

No, no long long tail for me.

And so if I can't have a tail

I'll have a long long nose, a nose just like an elephant's, the longest nose that grows.

I wish I had a long long nose,

and I can tell you why. I think it would be very good to get at things up high.

Every kid in town would love it, every kid but big Bill Brown.

Every time I saw him,

I would sneeze and blow him down.

Say, I could help the fireman.

My nose would be just right

I could help them put out fires a hundred times a night.

Oh, I would do a lot of things that no one ever did

and everyone in town would say, just watch that long nose

kid. But, if I had a long long nose,

I know what Dad would do.

My dad would make me wash the car, the

house and windows too. My dad would make me work

all day and wash things with that hose.

I guess it would not be so good to have a long

long nose.

Now let me think about it all these things.

I want are bad.

And so I wish I wish. I wish what do I wish I had?

I know what. I know just what. I know

just what to do. I wish that I had all those things

I'd be a which what who. If I could be a which what

who I'd jump high in the air.

I 'd splash and spout and run about. I'd give the town of scare. But the people would not like it.

They would be so scared.

I bet. They would call the town policemen.

They would catch me in a net.

They would put me in the zoo house with my horns and nose and feet and hay. Just hay, 2 times a day is all I'd get to eat.

I think I would be very sad when people came to call. So, I don't think a which what

who would be much fun at all.

So I think there are some things I do not wish to be.

That is why I think that I just wish to be like me.