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!