Think!

READING 3

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READING EXERCISE
Directions: Practice reading the poem.

Ding, Dong, Bell

Ding, Dong, bell!
“Pussy’s in the well.”
“Who put her in?”
“Little Tommy Green.”
“Who pulled her out?”
“Little Tommy Stout.”
“What a naughty boy was that,
To try to drown a little cat,
Who never did him harm,
And killed the mice in his father’s barn.”

-Story and Verse for Children Edited by

Mirriam Blanton Huber, NY: The Macmillan C:, 1940

1. What is the poem about?

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