If I ran the zoo

Which one is the zoo?

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"It's a pretty good zoo," Said young Gerald McGrew, "And the fellow who runs it seems proud of it, too."

"But if I ran the zoo," Said young Gerald McGrew, "I'd make a few changes. That's just what I'd do....."

The lions and the tigers and that kind of stuff they have up here now are not quite good enough.

Answer explanation

'Run' can mean to manage something.

I run a company.

This means I am the boss of a company. '

You see things like these in just any old zoo. They're awfully old fashioned. I want something new!.

Answer explanation

awfully = very

OId fashioned = traditional.

This is an old fashioned house.

So I'd open each cage. I 'd unlock every pen, Let the animals go, and start over again.

And, somehow or other, I think I could find

Some beasts of a much more unusual kind.

A four-footed lion's not much of a beast. The one in my zoo will have ten feet, at least!

Five legs on the left and five more on the right. Then people will stare and they'll say " What a sight!"

Answer explanation

What a sight!

It means " I am surprised."

This Zoo Keeper, New Keeper Gerald's quite keen. That's the strangest lion that I have ever seen.

Answer explanation

Keen means hard working.

He is a keen worker ( it means he works very hard )