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 broccoli and all the beets and beans, 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.