playing tag of all kinds; cross-tag, wood-tag, dirt-tag, leaf-tag,
stump-tag, and a new kind, called acorn-tag, which I will explain about
later. Then the bunny children went home with their nurse and Jimmie and
Lulu also went home and about two days after that a very funny thing
happened.

What it was you shall hear to-morrow night if the trolley car doesn't get
off the track, but I'll let you know this much--it's going to be about the
rooster trying to swim.




STORY X

THE ROOSTER TRIES TO SWIM


Grandfather Goosey-Gander was quite lame the next day from having been
caught in the brush pile, and could not go very far away from the duck
pen. He did manage to hobble around on the crutch which Nurse Jane
Fuzzy-Wuzzy made for him, and he sat in a sunny corner, reading the
newspaper with his glasses which Susie Littletail found. He was reading
away as Alice, Lulu and Jimmie Wibblewobble were playing about on the edge
of the pond, and the little duck children made so much noise that the old
grandfather could not understand what was in the papers.

"Can't you children play something quiet?" he asked for Papa and Mamma
Wibblewobble had gone visiting, and Grandfather Goosey-Gander was left to
mind the house. "Play some nice, easy game," he suggested.