"It‘s luscious, it‘s super,
It‘s mushious, it‘s duper,
It‘s better than rotten old fish.
You mash it and munch it,
You chew it and crunch it!
It‘s lovely to hear it go squish!"
"It must be berries," sang the Roly-Poly Bird. "Berries are my favorite food in the world. Is it raspber-ries, perhaps? Or could it be strawberries?"
The Enormous Crocodile laughed so much his teeth rattled together like pennies in a piggy bank. "Crocodiles don‘t eat berries," he said. "We eat little boysand girls. And sometimes we eat Roly-Poly Birds, aswell." Very quickly, the Crocodile reached up and snapped his jaws at the Roly-Poly Bird. He just missed the Bird, but he managed to catch hold of the long beautiful feathers in its tail. The Roly-Poly Birdgave a shriek of terror and shot straight up into theair, leaving its tail feathers behind in the Enormous Crocodile‘s mouth.
At last, the Enormous Crocodile came out of the other side of the jungle into the sunshine. He could see the town not far away.