The Cat on the Mat is Flat (8 page)

‘Alas! Alack!' cried Harry Black

when he woke up—

opened his sack—

and found Jack the Yak

in place of his snack.

‘Alas! Alack! What a setback!

My snack has been stolen

by a snack-stealing yak!'

said the very angry Harry Black.

‘I'm going to give that yak a whack!'

But Jack the Yak

jumped out of the sack

and yelled, ‘Get back,

I've got a tack!

And it's a SHARP one,

Harry Black!'

‘Alas! Alack!' said Harry Black.

‘I cannot give that yak a whack!

Or he'll attack me with that tack!'

And then Jack the Yak

with his sharp tack

jumped out of the sack

and fled on horseback.

                 So ...

if you're ever walking

down a track

carrying a snack in a sack

on your back

and you meet a snackless yak

called Jack,

don't hold back:

open your sack

and share your snack—

for Jack the sneaky,

snack-stealing Yak

might just have

a very sharp tack

and you could end up

like poor Harry Black—

alone and hungry

on a haystack

with nothing but

a snackless sack.

DUCK
IN A
TRUCK
IN THE
MUCK

There was a duck.

His name was Chuck.

Chuck the Duck

drove an ice-cream truck.

But one wet day Chuck's

truck got stuck.

‘What bad luck,'

said Chuck the Duck.

‘My ice-cream truck

is stuck in muck.'

But just then

along came

his friend Buck

in his brand-new

shiny

muck-sucking

truck!

‘Hey, Buck,' said Chuck,

‘my truck is stuck. My truck is stuck

in all this muck.'

‘You're in luck, Chuck,'

said Buck the Duck.

‘I can get your truck unstuck.