A cow was at my gate this morning. She laughed at me. I asked her to leave. I said it politely. She just laughed at me. Then I thought to myself, “I have no gate.” and the cow with her smile disappeared.

A herd of elephants came knocking on my door just this afternoon. “What can I do for you?” I asked them. “We want bananas to eat, with jello on top. Hold the peels please and thank you.” They replied. I got them what they wished for and they went upon their way. Still, they trampled my rose bush to the ground. “But I have no rose bush,” I thought to myself. I saw bananas and jello at my feet. My lawn was free from elephant tracks and the rose bush I never had wasn’t trampled.

A big bird flew down and took away my house this evening. I yelled up to it “Don’t drop it! You’ll break my dishes.” Then I realized, “I have no house”. Down came the house but it vanished into the clouds. I picked up my pie plate. It was only dented a bit.

Now it is nighttime. I am waiting for an animal to come. I’ll know better and not believe it this time. Here comes a gorilla. He’s all dressed in blue with shiny buttons on his coat. He’s holding a banana. It must be from this afternoon because it is black and misshapen. He says to me, “ You must leave, You can’t sleep upon this bench.” I laugh at him and start to moo, like the cow this morning. Maybe I’ll disappear. “ you’ll have to move along, find another place to sleep.” He says to me. But I want My banana back that the elephants took this afternoon. The gorilla in blue doesn’t like that. “ I’ll have to take you in.” He says to me. I hit him with my pie plate but it doesn’t do any good. He puts two shiny bracelets on my hands and takes me to a house. It even has a gate. lots of gates are inside it’s doors. “I wonder if the big bird will fly away with this one.” I think to myself. Before the ape leaves me alone inside the house of gates I have one question to ask him. “ may I have some bananas with jello on top?”