But whenever Freddie Firefly caught sight of Benjamin Bat's dark shape,
flitting in a zigzag path across the moon, he always cried out in a loud
voice:

"Look out, Benjamin Bat! Mr. Moon will singe your wings if you're not
careful."




XX

MRS. LADYBUG'S ADVICE


Finding himself face to face with Mrs. Ladybug one night in Farmer
Green's meadow, Freddie Firefly noticed, even before she spoke, that the
little lady was not in a cheerful mood. In fact, she frowned at him
darkly and pointed one of her knitting needles straight at him as she
began to speak.

"You're terribly careless with that light of yours," she said. "People
are always warning me that my house is on fire and telling me that I'd
better hurry home. Now--" she added--"now I think I've discovered the
reason why my friends are forever worrying about fire. No doubt when
they give me such advice they have seen you prowling around my house
with that light of yours; and they think that if you haven't already set
my house on fire, you're just a-going to."