CASE STUDY NO. 07                                Young Joey's adder was rather short.                          'It should be much longer,' he often thought.                        His father mocked, 'What's that little worm?'                      A heartless taunt that made Joey squirm.                    So he hid her away in a pencil box                  Which he carefully lined with old woollen socks.               Doctor Robert's the right man to know             How to encourage a grass snake to grow.           So Joey brought her to A & E.           (That's CASUALTY to you and me.)            Nurse Jack said, 'You did right to fetch her.             Quick, somebody! Call for a stretcher.'              'I'm here,' called the doc, dressed in surgical purple,               'Break out the rack and hand me a scalpel.'                Her thin snaky screams were heard in Ward 2                 By a crying hyena and a flying emu.                But before young Joey could take her away,              The hospital manager said, 'Now you must pay! '            But it all goes to show what mad doctors can do,          'Cos now Joey's adder is seven feet two!