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ummery Saturday
Illustrated by
SelinaYoun
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ASummery SaturdayMornin
To Alice and Poppy—the goose-and-dog girls.
—M.M.For my mum.—S.Y.
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ISBN 0-439-09943-9
Text copyright © 1998 by Margaret Mahy. Illustrations copyright © 1998
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Margaret Mahy
A Summery SaturdayMornm
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We take the dogs down the wiggly track,
The wiggly track, the wiggly track.
One dog's white and the other dog's black
On a summery Saturday morning.
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One dog's thin and the other dog's fat
On a summery Saturday morning.
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They chase the boy on the rattly bike,
The rattly bike, the rattly bike.
Chasing things is what dogs like
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Long grass grows on the edge of the sea,
The edge of the sea, the edge of the sea.
The wind is blowing wild and free
On a summery Saturday morning.
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A goose looks out of the tangled green,
The tangled green, the tangled green.
Her neck is long and her eye is mean
On a summery Saturday morning.
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/,Another goose . . . and then another,
Then another, then another!
Seven sleek sisters out with mother
On a summery Saturday morning.,
The geese begin to run away,
Run away, run away.
The dogs run, too. They want to play
On a summery Saturday morning. %
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We run, too, to catch the dogs,
To catch the dogs, to catch the dogs
Scattering shells and leaping logs
On a summery Saturday morning.
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The mud begins its guggliwugs,
Its guggliwugs, its guggliwugs.
Our sandals slide like slugliwugs
On a summery Saturday morning.
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^The geese turn round and flap and hiss,
Flap and hiss, flap and hiss.
The dogs were not expecting this
On a summery Saturday morning.
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The geese begin to chase us back,
To chase us back, to chase us back.
Out of the mud and up the track
On a summery Saturday morning.
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you want to walk in peace,
Walk in peace, walk in peace, %Don't let your dogs upset the geese V'
On a summery Saturday morning.
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In Margaret Mahy's lively read-aloud romp, lots of
things don't go quite as planned on one summery
Saturday morning. But the children, dogs, cat, and
even the geese seem to enjoy themselves, as will
any child and adult who share this lighthearted
picture book, delightfully illustrated with Selina
Young's boisterous artwork.
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