This is a book you READ ALOUD to find out just

how smart your tongue is. The first time you

read it, don't go fast! This Fox is a tricky fox.
He'll try to get your tongue in trouble.

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80038-9 ISBN: 0-394-90038-3 (lib. bdg.)
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BEGINNER BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc.

Copyright © 1965 by Theodor S. Geisel and Audrey S. Geisel. All rights resen.-ed under International and P&n American
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in Tbronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada Limited. Manufactured in the United States of Amenca.
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Chicks with bricks come.

Chicks with blocks come
Chicks with bricks and
blocks and clocks come.

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Look, sir. Look, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir.

Let's do tricks with
bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with
chicks and clocks, sir.
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First, I'll make a

quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a
quick trick block stack.
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You can make a
quick trick chick stack.
You can make a
quick trick clock stack.
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 And here's 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.

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 Now we come to
ticks and tocks, sir
Try to say this
Mr. Knox, sir. . . .

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Clocks on fox tick.

Clocks on Knox tock
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.
Please, sir. I don't
like this trick, sir.

My tongue isn't
quick or slick, sir.

I get all those

ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the
chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.
Fm so sorry,
Mr. Knox, sir

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Here's an easy
game to play.
Here's an easy
thing to say. . . .
New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

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Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who who sew

sees
whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew
Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy,

Mr. Fox, sir.

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 Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

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Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow
sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

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 Sue sews socks of
fox in socks now.

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Slow Joe Crow sews
Knox in box now.
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Sue sews rose
on Slow Joe Crow's clothes
Fox sews hose
on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.
Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.

This game makes

my tongue quite lame, sir.

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Mr. Knox, sir,
what a shame, sir.

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new to do now.
Here is lots of
new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Gooey.
Blue goo. New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

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for chewy chewing!
That's what that
Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to
chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir,

choose to chew, sir,

with the Goo- Goose,

chew, sir. Do, sir.
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Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.

I can't say it.

I won't chew it

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Step this way.
We'll find another
game to play.

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Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.
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Ben bends Bim's broom.

Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.
Ben's band. Bim's band
Big bands. Pig bands.
Bim and Ben lead
bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs
and Bim's band booms.
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Pig band! Boom band!

Big band! Broom band!
My poor mouth can't
say that. No, sir.

My poor mouth is
much too slow, sir.

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Well then . . .

bring your mouth this way.

rU find it something
it can say.

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Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
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Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luke's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks
in lakes Luke Luck likes
Luke Luck takes licks
in lakes duck likes.

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 I can't blab
such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't
made of rubber.

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Mr. Knox. Now
come now. Come now.
You don't have to
be so dumb now.. . .
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Try to say this,
Mr. Knox, please. . . .

Through three cheese trees

three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made
these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these
three free fleas sneeze.

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 stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say

such silly stuff, sir.

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Very well, then,
Mr. Knox, sir.

Let'shave a little talk

about tweetle beetles.
 What do you know
about tweetle beetles?
Well . . .

When tweetle beetles fight,

it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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And when they
battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle
beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles

battle with paddles in a puddle
they call it a tweetle
beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND . . .
 When beetles battle beetles
in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle
is a puddle in a bottle. . .

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. . . they call this
a tweetle beetle
bottle puddle
paddle battle muddle.
AND . . .

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 When beetles
fight these battles
in a bottle
with their paddles
and the bottle's
on a poodle
and the poodle's
eating noodles . . .

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. . . they call this

a muddle puddle
tweetle poodle
beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle

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Now wait
a minute,
Mr. Socks Fox!

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 When a fox is

in the bottle where

the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles
in a puddle on a
noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call . .

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. a tweetle beetle
. .

noodle poodle bottled

paddled muddled duddled
fuddled wuddled
fox in socks, sir!

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Fox in socks,
our game is done, sir

Thank you for

a lot of fun, sir.

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