BABAR THE EDITOR REFUSES
TO TAKE A FLYER ON DUMBO

I had luncheon with Babar the Elephant
Back when I was trying to sell a fant-
Astic story about
"Dumbo's Deaf!" but he shout-
Ed "No, no, that's completely ear-relevant!"

Great! All this time I thought that "Ella Funt" was Allen Funt's daughter.

Reminds me of Ogden Nash's poem:

THE ELEPHANT by Ogden Nash

Elephants are useful friends,
Equipped with handles at both ends,
They have a wrinkled moth proof hide,
Their teeth are upside down, outside,
If you think the elephant preposterous,
You’ve probably never seen a rhinosterous.

Or Laura Elizabeth Richards's poem, which Shu loves to cite:

Eletelephony

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

I recall vaguely the Joyce Kilmer poem

I think that I shall never see
An elephant stuck in a tree.

I forget the rest.

That was Dr Seuss. https://www.google.com/search?...mgrc=j27-iOQS4UZ1sM:

I love Horton Hatches an Egg! But then I love Seuss.