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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Geisel, Theodor Seuss. Fox in socks, by Dr. Seuss.

New York, Beginner Books; distributed by Random House © 1965.

61 p. col. illus. 24 cm. (Beginner books, B-38)

I. Title. PZ8.3.G276Fo 65-10484

ISBN 978-0-394-80038-7 (trade) — ISBN 978-0-394-90038-4 (lib. bdg.)

eBook ISBN: 978-0-385-37207-7

For

Mitzi Long and Audrey Dimond

of the

Mt. Soledad Lingual Laboratories

Fox

Socks

Box

Knox

Knox in box.

Fox in socks.

Knox on fox

in socks in box.

Socks on Knox

and Knox in box.

Fox in socks

on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.

Chicks with blocks come.

Chicks with bricks and

blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir. Look, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir.

Let’s do tricks with

bricks and blocks, sir.

Let’s do tricks with

chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I’ll make a

quick trick brick stack.

Then I’ll make a

quick trick block stack.

You can make a

quick trick chick stack.

You can make a

quick trick clock stack.

And here’s a

new trick, Mr. Knox. . . .

Socks on chicks

and chicks on fox.

Fox on clocks

on bricks and blocks.

Bricks and blocks

on Knox on box.

Now we come to

ticks and tocks, sir.

Try to say this,

Mr. Knox, sir. . . .

Clocks on fox tick.

Clocks on Knox tock.

Six sick bricks tick.

Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir. I don’t

like this trick, sir.

My tongue isn’t

quick or slick, sir.

I get all those

ticks and clocks, sir,

mixed up with the

chicks and tocks, sir.

I can’t do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I’m so sorry,

Mr. Knox, sir.

Here’s an easy

game to play.

Here’s an easy

thing to say. . . .

New socks.

Two socks.

Whose socks?

Sue’s socks.

Who sews whose socks?

Sue sews Sue’s socks.

Who sees who sew

whose new socks, sir?

You see Sue sew

Sue’s new socks, sir.

That’s not easy,

Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes? . . .

Crow comes.

Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow’s clothes?

Sue sews crow’s clothes.

Slow Joe Crow

sews whose clothes?

Sue’s clothes.

Sue sews socks of

fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews

Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose

on Slow Joe Crow’s clothes.

Fox sews hose

on Slow Joe Crow’s nose.

Hose goes.

Rose grows.

Nose hose goes some.

Crow’s rose grows some.

Mr. Fox!

I hate this game, sir.

This game makes

my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir,

what a shame, sir.

We’ll find something

new to do now.

Here is lots of

new blue goo now.

New goo. Blue goo.

Gooey. Gooey.

Blue goo. New goo.

Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo

for chewy chewing!

That’s what that

Goo-Goose is doing.

Do you choose to

chew goo, too, sir?

If, sir, you, sir,

choose to chew, sir,

with the Goo-Goose,

chew, sir. Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir,

I won’t do it.

I can’t say it.

I won’t chew it.

Very well, sir.

Step this way.

We’ll find another

game to play.

Bim comes.

Ben comes.

Bim brings Ben broom.

Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim’s broom.

Bim bends Ben’s broom.

Bim’s bends.

Ben’s bends.

Ben’s bent broom breaks.

Bim’s bent broom breaks.

Ben’s band. Bim’s band.

Big bands. Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead

bands with brooms.

Ben’s band bangs

and Bim’s band booms.

Pig band! Boom band!

Big band! Broom band!

My poor mouth can’t

say that. No, sir.

My poor mouth is

much too slow, sir.

Well then . . .

bring your mouth this way.

I’ll find it something

it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke’s duck likes lakes.

Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luke’s duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks

in lakes Luke Luck likes.

Luke Luck takes licks

in lakes duck likes.

I can’t blab

such blibber blubber!

My tongue isn’t

made of rubber.

Mr. Knox. Now

come now. Come now.

You don’t have to

be so dumb now. . . .

Try to say this,

Mr. Knox, please. . . .

Through three cheese trees

three free fleas flew.

While these fleas flew,

freezy breeze blew.

Freezy breeze made

these three trees freeze.

Freezy trees made

these trees’ cheese freeze.

That’s what made these

three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it! Stop it!

That’s enough, sir.

I can’t say

such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then,

Mr. Knox, sir.

Let’s have a little talk

about tweetle beetles. . . .

What do you know

about tweetle beetles?

Well . . .

When tweetle beetles fight,

it’s called

a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they

battle in a puddle,

it’s a tweetle

beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles

battle with paddles in a puddle,

they call it a tweetle

beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND . . .

When beetles battle beetles

in a puddle paddle battle

and the beetle battle puddle

is a puddle in a bottle . . .

. . . they call this

a tweetle beetle

bottle puddle

paddle battle muddle.

AND . . .

When beetles

fight these battles

in a bottle

with their paddles

and the bottle’s

on a poodle

and the poodle’s

eating noodles . . .

. . . they call this

a muddle puddle

tweetle poodle

beetle noodle

bottle paddle battle.

AND . . .

Now wait

a minute,

Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is

in the bottle where

the tweetle beetles battle

with their paddles

in a puddle on a

noodle-eating poodle,

THIS is what they call . . .

. . . a tweetle beetle

noodle poodle bottled

paddled muddled duddled

fuddled wuddled

fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks,

our game is done, sir.

Thank you for

a lot of fun, sir.

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