doesn’t come down the chimney and put the fire out, so I can’t cook some
pink eggs with chocolate on for my birthday, I’ll tell you in the
following story about Bawly and the soldier hat.




STORY VIII

BAWLY AND THE SOLDIER HAT


Susie Littletail and Jennie Chipmunk were having a play party in the
woods. They had their lunch in little birch-bark baskets, and they used
a nice, big, flat stump for a table. They took an old napkin for a
tablecloth, and they had pieces of carrots boiled in molasses and
chocolate, and cabbage with pink frosting on, and nuts all covered with
candy, and some sugared popcorn, and all nice things like that, to eat.

“Oh, isn’t this lovely!” exclaimed Susie. “Please pass me the fried
lolly-pops, Jennie, aren’t they lovely?”

“Yes, they’re perfectly grand!” spoke Jennie as she passed over some
bits of turnip, which they made believe were fried lolly-pops. “I’ll
have some sour ginger snaps, Susie.”

So Susie passed the plate full of acorns, which were make-believe sour
ginger snaps, you know, and the little animal girls were having a very
fine time, indeed. Oh, my, yes, and a bottle of horseradish also!