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 softly with the left foot—so softly you must listen with the softest little listeners you have deep inside your ears.

And this was the song, this was the old-time, old-fashioned left foot song the shadow of the goose sang for Hoo Hoo: Be a yang yang if you want to. Be a hoo hoo if you want to.

The yang yangs always yang in the morning. The hoo hoos always hoo in the morning.

Early in the morning the putters sit putting, Putting on your nose, putting on your ears, Putting in your eyes and the lashes on your eyes, Putting on the chins of your chinny chin chins.

And after singing the left foot song the shadow of the goose walked around in a long circle, came back where it started from, stopped and stood still with the proud stand-still of a goose, and then stretched its neck sticking up straight and long, longer than any time yet, and then bended its neck bent and