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The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to
play. So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold,
wet day
I sat there with
Sally. We sat there, we two. And I said, “How I
wish We had something to
do!”
Too wet to go out And too cold to play
ball. So we sat in the
house. We did nothing at all.
So all we could do was
to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like
it. Not one little bit.
And then Something went BUMP!
How that bump made us
jump!
We looked! Then we saw him step
in on the mat!
We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat! And he said to us, “Why do you sit there
like that?”
“I know it is wet And the sun is not
sunny. But we can have Lots of good fun that
is funny!”
“I know some good
games we could play,” Said the cat. “I know some new
tricks,”
Said the Cat in the
Hat. “A lot of good tricks.
I will show them to
you. Your mother Will not mind at all
if I do.”
Then Sally and I Did not know what to
say. Our mother was out of
the house For the day.
But our fish said,
“No! No! Make that cat go away!
Tell that Cat in the
Hat You do NOT
want to play. He should not be here.
He should not be
about. He should not be here When your mother is
out!”
“Now! Now! Have no
fear. Have no fear!” said
the cat. “My tricks are not
bad,” Said the Cat in the
Hat. “Why, we can have Lots of good fun, if
you wish, With a game that I
call UP-UP-UP
with a fish!”
“Put me down!” said
the fish. “This is no fun at
all! Put me down!” said the
fish. “I do NOT wish to
fall!”
“Have no fear!” said
the cat. “I will not let you
fall. I will hold you up
high As I stand on a ball. With a book on one
hand! And a cup on my hat! But that is not ALL I
can do!’ Said the cat…
"Look at me! Look at me now!" said
the cat. "With a cup and a cake on the top of my hat! I can hold up TWO
books! I can hold up the
fish! And a little toy ship! And some milk on a
dish! And look! I can hop up and down
on the ball! But that is not all! Oh, no. that is not all...
"Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know
how. I can hold up the cup And the milk and the
cake! I can hold up these
books! And the fish on a rake! I can hold the toy ship And a little toy man! And look! With my tail I can hold a red fan! I can fan with the fan As I hop on the ball! But that is not all. Oh, no. That is not all...."
That is what the cat
said... Then he fell on hishead! He came down with a
bump From up there on the
ball. And Sally and I, We saw ALL the things
fall!
And our fish came
down, too. He fell into a pot! He said, "Do I like
this? Oh no! I do not. This is not a good
game," Said our fish as he
lit. "No, I do not like it, Not one little bit!"
"Now look what you
did!" Said the fish to the
cat. "Now look at this
house! Look at this! Look at
that! You sank our toy ship, Sank it deep in the
cake. You shook up our house And you bent our new
rake. You SHOULD NOT be here When our mother is not. You get out of this
house!" Said the fish in the
pot.
"But I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot!" Said the Cat in the Hat To the fish in the pot. "I will NOT go away. I do NOT wish to go! And so," said the Cat
in the Hat, "So so so.... I will show you Another good game that
I know!"
And then he ran out. And, then, fast as a
fox,
The Cat in the Hat Came back in with a
box.
A big red wood box. It was shut with a
hook. "Now look at this
trick," Said the cat. "Take a look!"
Then he got up on top With a tip of his hat. "I call this game
FUN-IN-A-BOX," Said the cat. "In this box are two
things I will show to you now. You will like these
two things," Said the cat with a
bow.
"I will pick up the
hook. You will see something
new. Two things. And I call
them Thing
One and Thing
Two. These Things will not
bite you. They want to have fun." Then, out of the box Came Thing Two and
Thing One! And they ran to us
fast. They said, "How do you
do? Would you like to
shake hands With Thing One and
Thing Two?"
And Sally and I Did not know what to
do. So we had to shake
hands With Thing One and
Thing Two. We shook their two
hands. But our fish said,
"No! No! Those Things should
not be In this house! Make
them go!
"They should not be
here When your mother is
not! Put them out! Put them
out!" Said the fish in the
pot.
"Have no fear, little
fish," Said the Cat in the
Hat. "These Things are good
Things." And he gave them a pat. "They are tame.
Oh, so
tame! They have come here to
play. They will give you
some fun On this wet, wet, wet
day."
"Now, here is a game
that they like," Said the cat. "They like to fly
kites," Said the Cat in the
Hat.
"No! Not in the house!" Said the fish in the
pot. "They should not fly
kites In a house! They
should not. Oh, the things they
will bump! Oh, the things they
will hit! Oh, I do not like it! Not one little bit!"
Then Sally and I Saw them run down the
hall. We saw those two Things Bump their kites on
the wall! Bump! Thump! Thump!
Bump! Down the wall in the
hall.
Thing Two and Thing
One! They ran up! They ran
down! On the string of one
kite We saw Mother's new
gown! Her gown with the dots That are pink, white
and red. Then we saw one kite
bump On the head of her bed!
Then those Things ran
about With big bumps, jumps
and kicks And with hops and big
thumps And all kinds of bad
tricks. And I said, "I do NOT like the way
that they play! If Mother could see
this, Oh, what would she
say!"
Then our fish said,
"LOOK! LOOK!" And our fish shook
with fear. "Your mother is on her
way home! Do you hear? Oh, what will she do
to us? What will she say? Oh, she will not like
it To find us this way!"
"So, DO something!
Fast!" said the fish. "Do you hear! I saw her. Your
mother! Your mother is near! So, as fast as you
can, Think of something to
do! You will have to get
rid of Thing One and Thing
Two!"
So, as fast as I
could, I went after my net. And I said,
"With my net I can get them I bet. I bet, with my net, I can get those Things
yet!"
Then I let down my net. It came down with a
PLOP! And I had them! At
last! Those two Things had
to stop. Then I said to the cat, "Now you do as I say. You pack those Things And you take them
away!"
"Oh dear!" said the
cat. "You did not like our
game... Oh dear. What a shame! What a shame! What a shame!"
Then he shut up the
Things In the box with the
hook. And the cat went away With a sad kind of
look.
"That is good," said
the fish. "He has gone away. Yes. But your mother will
come. She will find this big
mess! And this mess is so big And so deep and so
tall, We can not pick up. There is no way at
all!"
And THEN! Who was back in the
house? Why, the cat! "Have no fear of this
mess," Said the Cat in the
Hat. "I always pick up all
my playthings And so... I will show you another Good trick that I
know!"
Then we saw him pick up All the things that
were down, He picked up the cake, And the rake, and the
gown, And the milk, and the
strings, And the books, and the
dish, And the fan, and the
cup, And the ship, and the
fish. And he put them away. Then he said, "That is
that." And then he was gone With a tip of his hat.
Then our mother came in And she said to us two, "Did you have any fun? Tell me. What did you
do?"
And Sally and I did
not know What to say. Should we tell her The things that went
on there that day?
Should we tell her
about it? Now, what SHOULD we do? Well... What would you do If your mother asked
you?
Seuss, Dr. (1987).The Cat in the Hat. S.l.: Random House/Miller Brody.
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