somebody else that laughed.

Then the Queen assured Buster that paying a call on a person couldn't be
said to be work.

"You go and talk with Freddie Firefly," she directed him, "and if your
plan proves to be a success, it will then be your turn to laugh at
others."




IX

FREDDIE'S PROMISE


Buster Bumblebee did not find Freddie Firefly very easily. It was a
sunny afternoon; and if Freddie was flashing his bright light, Buster
was unable to see it. But at last he spied Freddie eating a meal of
pollen in the meadow.

"How would you like to work for my mother, the Queen?" Buster asked him.

"I don't believe I'd care to, thank you," Freddie Firefly answered, with
a mouth so full of food that Buster heard him only with great
difficulty.

"I'll wait a moment, until you have finished your lunch," said Buster.