StoryTitle("caps", "What a Bird Taught") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(54, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little bird sat on a twig of a tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A swinging and singing as glad as could be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shaking his tail and smoothing his dress,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And having such fun as you never could guess.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when he had finished his gay little song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He flew down on the street and went hopping along;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This way and that way with both little feet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While his sharp little eyes looked for something to eat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little boy said to him, \"Little bird, stop", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tell me the reason you go with a hop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why don't you walk as boys do, or men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One foot at a time, like a duck or a hen?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the little bird went with a hop, hop, hip;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he laughed as if he never would stop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he said, \"Little boy, there are some birds that talk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some birds that hop, and some birds that walk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Use your eyes, little boy, watch closely and see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which little birds hop, both feet first, like me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which little birds walk, like the duck and the hen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when you know that, you'll know more than most men.", "") ?>
PagePoem(55, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Every bird that can scratch in the dust can walk;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every bird that can wade in the water can walk;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every bird that has claws to catch prey with can walk;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One foot at a time, that's the way that they walk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But most birds that can sing you a song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are so small that their legs are not very strong", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To scratch with, or wade with, or catch things; that's why", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hop with both feet. Little boy, good-bye.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>