Everyday MaLizze MaGoose hears the chickens'cackle. 
They cackle over everything and always cluck the 
same thing.


Buk, Buk, Buk, Ba-Daw-Cut
I lay an egg everyday and go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot
I lay an egg everyday and go barefoot!

"Poor dears!"  MaLizze thinks.  "They do lay an egg 
everyday and go barefoot.  Poor dears!"   
And MaLizze gets an idea!
 
SHE WILL GET SHOES FOR THE CHICKENS!
 
She goes into the people's house and collects all 
the shoes she can find.
    
Father's rough shoes
Grandpa's slippers
Mother's heeled shoes
Grandma's rubbers
Boy's creepy sneakers
Girl's leaping dancers
Shoes all shapes
Shoes all sizes
Even baby's cute wee booties
 
She collects them so quickly and quietly no one 
hears her.  She takes them to her coop to look 
them over.
 
Some are bright and shiny new
Some are worn and old
Some have long and stringy laces
Some have ties in different places
Some have gold and silver buckles
Some have velvet bows.
 
Father comes in the house from working 
and takes off his muddy rubber boots. 
"Where are my shoes?" he asks.

Grandma and Grandpa want to change their 
shoes.  "Where are our shoes?" they say 
together.  

Boy needs his creepy sneakers.  
Girl wants her leaping dancers.  
Baby wants his cute wee creepers.  
"Where are our shoes?" they all ask.  
They oogle in their closets.  
They search beneath the beds.  
They peer under tables and move around the chairs.   

Where are all their shoes?
 
MaLizze counts and re-counts her collection 
of shoes.  Then, satisfied, she settles back 
on her nest straw to wait.  Finally, a silly 
chicken comes running past, clucking.  


"Buk Buk Buk Ba-Daw-Cut.  
I lay an egg everyday and go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot.  
I lay an egg everyday and go barefoot!"

"Go barefoot no more!"  MaLizze shouts 
and tosses her a pair of high heel shoes.  
She gives shoes to another 
clucking chicken--then another--and 
another.  Soon, all the chickens are 
wearing great big human shoes.

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Some have big shoes,  Some have small.  
Some wear short shoes.  Some have tall.  
Shoes with velvet bows.  
Shoes with brassy buckles.  Toeless shoes.  
Shoes, all sizes.  
Shoes of all descriptions.  
MaLizze shoes every clucking chicken.
 
Are the chickens happy because they are 
no longer barefoot?
 
Some act puzzled, amazed, or humbled. 
Some are mad as bees who bumble.  
Some don't care.  
Some won't wear because shoes make 
them stumble.   
However, MaLizze is happy and very 
pleased with herself.
 
"HONK HONK HONK!" she cries happily 
shoeing herself with Grandma's high 
toppers before taking a stroll around 
the chicken yard.

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Boy looks out of the kitchen window.  
He is barefoot, her feet are cold, 
and he has bumped his big toe on a 
chair leg.  He sees the chickens 
and stares at the shoes.  "There are 
our shoes!" he cries.   

"It's MaLizze! cries Girl,  "She has 
given our shoes to the chickens!  
But why?'
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