What's the Use?

“What’s the use,”

Said the goose,

“To swim like a frog,

When you go just as far

If you float on a log?”

“Why should I,”

Said the fly,

“Suck an old apple-core,

When there’s sugar and fruit

In the grocery store?”

“It’s but right,”

Said the kite,

“That I follow the wind.

What’s a fellow to do

If he hasn’t a mind?”

“You’ll allow,”

Said the cow,

“That I’m really no thief,

When I turn all the clover

I steal, into beef.”

“Come again,”

Said the hen,

“On some other fine day.

Don’t think ’cause I cackle

I always must lay.”