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Rachel Lyman Field

The Animal Store

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

Or maybe a little more,

I'd hurry as fast as my legs would go

Straight to the animal store.


I wouldn't say, "How much for this or that?"—

"What kind of a dog is he?"

I'd buy as many as rolled an eye,

Or wagged a tail at me!


I'd take the hound with the drooping ears

That sits by himself alone;

Cockers and Cairns and wobbly pups

For to be my very own.


I might buy a parrot all red and green,

And the monkey I saw before,

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

Or maybe a little more.