But the little Red Hen lived happily ever after, in her own little
farmhouse.

FOOTNOTES:

[18] Adapted from the verse version, by Horace E. Scudder, which follows
this as an alternative.




THE STORY OF THE LITTLE RID HIN


There was once't upon a time
A little small Rid Hin,
Off in the good ould country
Where yees ha' nivir bin.

Nice and quiet shure she was,
And nivir did any harrum;
She lived alane all be herself,
And worked upon her farrum.

There lived out o'er the hill,
In a great din o' rocks,
A crafty, shly, and wicked
Ould folly iv a Fox.