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All the baby spiders in the nursery

Waving to each other clinging to their mothers

And smile at their dads

Smile at their dads who say

Now that’s a clever lad

One particular spider, who’s parents had named Ira

Fell out of his mother’s arms and became lost inside the giant insect hospital

Since mother spiders give birth to so many babies at one time

It is exceedingly difficult to keep track of all of them

And sometimes a baby will get lost without it’s mother ever being aware of its

absence

Ira was just such a case

He crawled about for hours crying but his mother couldn’t hear him for Ira was

a mute

This is where the story gets interesting

He opened his mouth and discovered a lake in a crater on his tongue

He was thirsty so he drank from the lake

This proved to be a fatal mistake

As the lake was really a cake filled with poisonous snakes, and Ira died

A nurse discovered dead baby Ira and sank with grief

She gently lifted him up to her breast and carried him weeping to the head nurse

To see if any baby spiders had been reported missing

The head nurse checked her missing baby spider file

And told her that No, no missing baby spiders have been reported

The nurse holding dead baby Ira then asked if they could have a funeral for him

The head nurse, being a very caring grasshopper

Agreed that that would be the proper thing to do

So they dug a small hole near a yellow tulip, held a brief but moving requiem

And with great sadness buried baby Ira

Miraculously, Ira was quickly reincarnated as a wild horse on the far off

planet called Nearly

On Nearly, wild horses hold the majority in the senate and Ira has discovered

pudding

His favorite is the kind without raisins

All the baby spiders in the nursery

Waving to each other clinging to their mothers

And smile at their dads

Smile at their dads who say

Now that’s a clever lad

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