What Was I Scared Of?

Hi! Does anyone recognize this picture? This was one of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories of all time. It just so happens it was Leanne the Librarianne's as well. When I stopped by her place the other day she had a beautiful hand painted picture of one of the scenes in this book on her wall. If you don't recognize them, allow me to introduce you, these are The Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside Them.

Well.......

I was walking in the night and I saw nothing scary, for I have never been afraid of anything. Not very. Then I was deep within the woods, when suddenly I spied them. I saw a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside them. I wasn't scared but yet I stopped. What could those pants be there for, what could a pair of pants at night be standing in the air for, and then they moved those empty pants! They kind of started jumping. And then my heart I must admit it kind of started thumping. So I got out, I got out fast, as fast as I could go sir. I was not scared but pants like that I do no care for no sir.....

The next night I went out. I had to do an errand. Had to pick a peck of snide in a dark and gloomy snide field, that was almost 9 miles wide. I said I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them I said and said and said those words I said them but I lied them. Then I reached inside a snide bush and the next thing that I knew, I felt my hand touch someone and I bet that you know who. And there I was! Caught in the snide, and in that dreadful place, those spooky empty pants and I were standing face to face. I yelled for help I screamed. I shrieked. I howled. I yowled. I cried. Oh save me from those pale green pants with nobody inside. But then a strange thing happened, why those pants began to cry. Those pants began to tremble, they were just as scared as I. I never heard such whimpering, and I began to see, that I was just as strange to them as they were strange to me. I put my arm around their waist, and sat right down beside them, I calmed them down poor empty pants with nobody inside them. And now we meet quite often, those empty pants and I, and we never shake or tremble, we both smile and we say HI!!