Is your Mama a llama?

I asked my friend Clyde.

“No she is not,”

is how Clyde replied.

“She’s got flippers and whiskers

and eats fish all day.

I do not think llamas

act quite in that way.”

“Oh,” I said.

“I’m beginning to feel

that your mama must

really be a…”

[Reader pauses here to let young children give the correct answer.]

Daniel shouts out excitedly:…”phoque”.

Truly, this linguistic regime creates difficulties for the unwary.