LADY BUG GOES SHOPPING
Mosquito was strolling one day through the town,
Enjoying the balmy spring air,
When whom should he meet, with her two little babes,
But dear little Lady Bug fair.
“Lady Bug, Lady Bug, what do you seek
In the streets of the busy town?”
“Sir, I’ve been to the spiders to buy me a web,
For my polka-dotted gown.”
“Lady Bug, Lady Bug, fly away home,”
Said old Mr. Grasshopper Gray,
“The town crier fears that your children will burn;
Your house is on fire, they say.”
“Your story is old, Mr. Grasshopper Gray,”
The Lady Bug said, “for you see
My cottage is standing, my children are safe,
For I took them shopping with me.”
LITTLE BABY ELEPHANT AND HIS NEW CLOTHES
Once there was a Daddy and a Mammy Elephant, and they had a little Baby Elephant.
When Daddy Elephant came home one day he found his dear little Baby Elephant crying great big tears!
And Daddy Elephant kissed him, and said, “Why, what’s the matter with my little Baby Elephant?”
And Baby Elephant said, “Why, Daddy, I’ve worn my stockings all out, and I haven’t any more to put on.”
“Is that all?” said Daddy Elephant. “Well, come along, and we will go and see if we can find some stockings for you.”
So they went a long way, through the Jungle, until they came to Mrs. Lion’s store, and they went in.
“Good morning, Mrs. Lion,” said Daddy Elephant, very politely. “Have you some stockings that you will sell me for my little Baby Elephant?”
“Well, now, Daddy Elephant,” said Mrs. Lion, “I don’t believe I have any that would fit him; they are all so small. But if you’ll take a seat, I will ask my little Lions to make him some.”
So she called four of her little Lions, and asked them if they would make some stockings for Baby Elephant. They said they would be pleased to do it, and so they got some balls of wool and began knitting so busily with their shiny knitting needles, click, click! click, click! that pretty soon there they were, four nice long new stockings, one for each foot.
Then Daddy Elephant paid for the stockings and put them on Baby Elephant. And Baby Elephant said, “These are perfectly lovely new stockings, Daddy, but now, do you know, I believe I ought to have some new shoes, so I won’t spoil my nice new stockings.”