Smiling so sweetly,
she greeted him meekly.
Mr. Gray turned around
and kicked the sand on the ground.
“Why are you so sad?”
asked Hayley, “Do you feel bad?
Does your tummy ache?
Oh, for goodness sake!”
“Oh no little one;
it is not the old tum.
It’s much more than that;
you see, I feel so flat.”
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