Smart
My dad gave me one dollar bill
Cause I'm his smartest
son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
Cause two is more
than one!
And then I took the quarters
And traded them to
Lou
For three dimes -- I guess he don't know
That three is more
than two!
Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just
'cause he can't see
He gave me four nickles for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
And I took the nickels to Hiram
Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five
pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went
and showed my dad,
And he got red in the cheeks
And closed his
eyes and shook his head--
Too proud of me to speak!
by Shel
Silverstein
Source(s):
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel
Silverstein
Cause I'm his smartest
son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
Cause two is more
than one!
And then I took the quarters
And traded them to
Lou
For three dimes -- I guess he don't know
That three is more
than two!
Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just
'cause he can't see
He gave me four nickles for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
And I took the nickels to Hiram
Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five
pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went
and showed my dad,
And he got red in the cheeks
And closed his
eyes and shook his head--
Too proud of me to speak!
by Shel
Silverstein
Source(s):
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel
Silverstein
This is an example of verbal irony because the boy has no clue what he has done and he thinks what he did was so good that his father is speachless but really his father is too mad to speak. so the verbal irony is the boy saying "And he got red cheeks And closed his eyes and shook his head Too proud of me to speak." And yes i do think this is funny, because the son is just so oblivious.