"What's the difference?" asked the Carrot.
"It's pleasanter for me fishing 'off the Hook' than on it," explained the worm.
The Cabbage and the Beet had had a race, and the Cabbage won.
"It couldn't be otherwise," sighed the Beet. "The Cabbage was made to come out a head, and I to be Beet."
"That squash is the funniest-looking squash I ever saw," said the Turnip to the Potato. "He's round and flat like a pin-cushion. Looks as if somebody'd stepped on him."
"Yes," said the Potato. "He looks more like a squush than a squash."
"I wish you'd keep quiet," said the Dormouse to the Corn-stalk. "You make so much noise I can't sleep."