This document contains excerpts from several Dr. Seuss stories and poems. The excerpts describe Sneetches with and without stars on their bellies, Bartholomew Cubbins liking his old hat with a feather, making the best of rainy days, walking with feet, gifts that don't come from stores, animals of different sizes and colors, Horton hearing a small noise in the jungle, the Lorax speaking for the trees, being asked to go now, things Mr. Brown can do, likes and dislikes of green eggs and ham, yawning being contagious, a game called Fun-in-a-Box, and feeling there are extra things in closets or drawers.
2. Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
Had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches
Had none upon thars.
Those stars werent so big. They were really
so small
You might think such a thing wouldnt matter
at all
3. In the beginning, Bartholomew
Cubbins didnt have five
hundred hats. He had only one
hat. It was an old one that had
belonged to his father and his
fathers father before him. It
was probably the oldest and the
plainest hat in the whole
Kingdom of Didd, where
Bartholomew Cubbins lived.
But Bartholomew liked it
especially because of the
feather that always pointed
straight up in the air.
4. I know it is wet
And the sun is not
sunny.
But we can have
Lots of good fun
that is funny!
6. And heres a
New trick, Mr.
Knox
Socks on chicks
And chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks
On bricks and
blocks.
Bricks and blocks
On Knox on box.
7. It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It
came without packages,
boxes or bags. And he
puzzled and puzzled 'till
his puzzler was sore.
Then he thought of
something he hadn't
before. What if
Christmas, he thought,
doesn't come from a
store. What if Christmas,
perhaps, means a little
bit more.
8. ALL TALL We all are tall. ALL SMALL We all are small.
ALL BALL We all play ball. BALL WALL Up on a wall.
ALL FALL Fall off the wall.
9. On the fifteenth of
May, in the Jungle of
Nool,
In the heat of the
day, in the cool of
the pool,
He was
splashingenjoying
the jungles great
joys
When Horton the
elephant heard a
small noise.
10. I speak for the
trees, for the trees
have no tongues.
And Im asking you,
sir, at the top of my
lungs
He was very upset
as he shouted and
puffed
Whats that THING
youve made out of
my Truffula tuft?
11. The time has come,
The time is now.
Just go, go, go!
I dont care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Marvin K. Mooney,
will you please go now!
12. "Oh, the wonderful
things Mr. Brown
can do!
He can go like a cow.
He can go MOO
MOO
Mr. Brown can do it.
How about you?"
13. Some are red. And
some are blue. Some
are old. And some
are new.
Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very,
very bad.
14. I would not, could not, in the
rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a
train.
Not in a car. Not in a tree.
I do not like the, Sam, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a
fox.
I will not eat them here or
there.
I do not like them anywhere!
15. A yawn is quite catching,
you see. Like a cough.
It just takes one yawn to
start other yawns off.
NOW the news has come
in that some friend of
Van Vlecks
Are yawning so wide you
can look down their
necks.
16. I call this game FUN-IN-A-BOX,
Said the cat.
In this box are two things
I will show to you now.
You will like these two things,
Said the cat with a bow.
17. Did you ever have
the feeling theres a
WASKET in your
BASKET
Or a NUREAU in your
BUREAU
Or a WOSET in your
CLOSET?
18. And the turtles,
of course
All the turtles are
free
As turtles and,
maybe,
all creatures
should be.