A Gopher In The Garden

By: Jack Prelutsky

There's a gopher in the garden, and he's

eating all the onions,

and he's eating all the carrots, all the corn and

cauliflower,

all the parsley, peas and pumpkins, all the

radishes and greens.

At breakfast, lunch or dinnertime the gopher is

no loafer

and he quickly will devour everything

before his eyes.

He does not even hesitate to eat a cabbage twice

his weight,

or a watermelon five or six or seven

times his size.