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DOCTOR BIG YELLER FELLER
by Van Clayton Powel
Doctor Big Yeller Feller was very big.
And he was definitely a 'feller' - a man.
But mainly, he was a yeller.
Boy, was he a yeller!
He worked at Getting Better Childrens Hospital
where he could be seen almost every day
racing around the halls on his long skinny legs, yelling,
"HAVE YOU SEEN MY SPECTACLES? HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SPECTACLES?!"
You see, Doctor Big Yeller Feller had ears like tiny shells
and a nose like a fat banana -
ears and a nose that were supposed to be holding his eyeglasses.
The eyeglasses Doctor Big was forever putting down somewhere
and forgetting about. Which is why he was usually
dashing about the hospital trying to find them! Like today.
He ran right up to three nurses in the hall and bellowed,
"HAVE YOU SEEN MY SPECTACLES? HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SPECTACLES?!",
shouting so loudly that the nurses jumped in surprise.
Once their hearts stopped pounding, they said, "No, Doctor, we haven't. Do you remember where you saw them last?"
But Doctor Big Yeller Feller didn't have a clue.
So as he went down the hall to check on his young patients,
it was, as usual, without his eyeglasses.
He entered the first room and blasted out,
"HALLO, HALLO! ANYBODY IN?
LET'S BE HAVING YOU, DOCTOR'S HERE.
COME ON, COME ON, DOCTOR'S HERE!"
Well, as soon as the children saw that Doctor Big didn't have his glasses, they hid in their beds and yelled back,
"THERE'S NOBODY HERE, DOCTOR BIG. SORRY, NOBODY HERE!"
Then they lay completely still and tried to hold in their giggles,
because they knew exactly what Doctor Big Yeller Feller would do next.
He shouted, "HO-HO, HO-HO! NOBODY HERE, YOU SAY. NOBODY HERE.
WELL, LET'S JUST SEE, MY LITTLE ONES. LET'S JUST SEE."
And he walked up to the children's table, bent over in a flash
and poked his head under one of the little chairs to have a look.
Giggling and snorting, the children hollered,
"OH, DOCTOR BIG, NO ONE COULD HIDE UNDER THAT CHAIR!
YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME. THERE'S NOBODY HERE. AND NOBODY THERE!"
Doctor Big yelled, "YES, YES, I BELIEVE YOU, MY WEE WIGGLIES,
I BELIEVE YOU. NOBODY HERE, YOU SAY. AND NOBODY THERE.
I'LL BE GOING THEN. TAH-TAHHH."
But instead, he slowly tiptoed over to the window,
snatched open the curtain and boomed,
"AH-HAAA, GOT YOU!"
But was there anyone there? Of course not! And from safe in their beds
the children chortled and chuckled and yelled out,
"OH, DOCTOR BIG, YOU'RE JUST BEING SILLY! WE'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU, THERE'S NOBODY HERE. AND NOBODY THERE! NOW PLEASE, GO AWAY!"
Doctor Big shouted back, "RIGHT YOU ARE, MY LITTLE MONKEYS, RIGHT YOU ARE. NOBODY HERE, NOBODY THERE. OFF I GO THEN."
But he was a doctor, and as we all know, doctors never give up easily.
So Doctor Big started poking around the room,
looking for children in the craziest places.
He whistled a little tune as he walked over to the closet
then suddenly whipped open the doors and searched madly
through the clothes - checking the pockets, checking the cuffs,
even looking inside the tiny shoes!
Then he slid along the wall to the toy box,
snatched up some comic books and shook them upside down -
as if he expected children to come tumbling out!
He even went over to the sink, looked up the tap and
yelled, "HALLO, HALLO! OUT YOU COME, DOCTOR'S HERE!
COME ON, COME ON, DOCTOR'S HERE!"
Well, the children thought this was a riot! How could they stand it?
They started laughing and laughing and squealing and honking
and that's how Doctor Big Yeller Feller found them.
He followed the sound of their laughter and went from bed to bed,
tickling children's feet, tickling children's chins, tickling children's tummies
until the whole room was a giggling, gurgling, howling mess.
Which is when the Head Nurse suddenly appeared in the doorway,
put her hands on her hips and roared,
"DOCTOR BIG, WHATS GOING ON IN HERE? THESE CHILDREN SHOULD BE REST
