Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham because his editor made a bet with him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. Dr. Seuss had just published The Cat in the Hat using 325. Green Eggs and Ham uses 50 words:

a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

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