The Old Leather Shoe

                                   

                                An old leather shoe was thrown away.

                                No longer needed at the start of the day.

                               

                                It was thrown into a ditch at the side of the road

                                and who came to live in it? but a big fat Toad.

                                "I like this shoe, it can be my new house

                                But wait no, this shoe isn't big enough for a mouse!"

                              
                       

                               Off hopped the Toad away from the shoe
                               and in climbed a mouse, a very small Shrew.
                               "This house is small and just the right size for me
                               But wait it has no windows, I cannot see!"

                               So away ran the Shrew and in slid a Snail
                               "I could not live here, there is no box for my mail!"

   

                                And off went the Snail and in fell an egg
                                It had fallen from the nest of a Robin named Peg.
                              

                               Into the shoe the little Robin flew
                               "I like this shoe, yes I really really do!"
                             

                                 So Peg lived in the shoe and a small chick she hatched
                                 and they never left for they became quite attatched.