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and the strange thing that happened to that little boy
They say it all happened when Gerald was two
that’s the age most kids start talking..
well at least most of them do
When he started talking
you know what he said
He didn’t talk words
he went Boing! Boing! instead”
when he first tries to talk can only utter sound effects like ‘Boing! Boing! His parents are shocked and call in a doctor who says he has no cure for the noises.
Gerald soon goes to school but is sent home because he goes ‘Cuckoo! He is rejected by the other kids because of the sounds he makes and his parents are annoyed so he runs away from home in despair.
He then comes across the head of 
the ‘Bong! Bong! Bong! radio station who hires Gerald as his entire sound effects department. Gerald parents are now proud of him, and he becomes rich and famous because he doesn’t speak words, he goes ‘Boing! Boing! instead.
Filed under: Dr. Seuss | Tags: child, Dr. Seuss, education, fantasy, humor, poetry, rhyme, school, storytelling
You think you’ve got it bad? asks Dr. Seuss. Consider then Gucky Gown or the Green-bearded Schlottz or the Brothers Ba-zoo, who all are “muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” Believe it; Dr. Seuss introduces a whole company of unluckies–from humans to Irish ducks to left socks–all in shimmeringly hapless circumstances.
