him. It was Bob. "Hal-lo," Bob
did say. "How do you do, Ben?" and he hit him a tap on the top of his
cap. He did not see Ben put the egg in his cap; and, O my! the egg did
go pop!! and it ran in his ear and his eye, and all on him from top to
toe. His new cap was all egg too.

So you see how bad it was in him not to let the old fat hen and her
egg be.

But he did not care a bit; for he and Bob ran off to see the men mow
the hay. It lay in the hot sun to dry.

Bob lay on the hay, and the sun was so hot, that the end of his nose
got red, and a big dog who was by the men saw the end of his nose, and
ran and made a snap at it to eat it. But Ben did hop up, and he and
Bob ran off.

[Illustration: "Ben and Bob ran off to see the men mow the
hay."--P. 54.]

Ben did go in to his mam-ma and say: "O mam-ma! we are so hot and so
dry! do let us get a pie to eat and a big tin mug of wa-ter; and oh!
may we put a big bit of ice in the tin mug?"

His mam-ma did say, Yes; and so Ben and Bob did eat the pie and had a
lot of fun; for Ben bit his pie to look like a cat who had one leg,
and Bob bit his pie in-to a dog who had one ear. He ate it all up; and
Bob did say he had a dog-pie, and Ben had a cat-pie. Was it not fun?

But his pa-pa did say to him: "Why, Ben, how did you get all the egg
on you?"

O how red Ben was! But he did not say a lie. O no! He did say: "Pa-pa,
I got an egg and put it in the top of my new cap, but Bob did not see
it, and he did tap the top of my cap, and the egg did go pop! all on
me, and the top of my new cap is all egg. How can I get it off?"

His pa-pa was full of joy, as his son did not say a lie, and he did
try to get all the egg off of the new cap. And now Ben and Bob ran
off, and Ben had a lot of fun, for he was not bad; O no! he was a boy
who did not say a lie, and so he had joy and fun all day. If you are
not bad, you can have joy and fun too. You are my pet, so I get all
the wee wee w-o-r-d-s I can, to put in-to this book for you; and if I
can see you one day and kiss you, _I_ can have joy

Too, too, too;
If I can see you, you, you:
[A]Will you come? Oh! do, do, do!

I will let you hop, hop, hop,
Run or spin your top, top, top,
Get a gun and pop, pop, pop.

Go out in the sun, sun, sun,
With my kit to run, run, run:
Will we not have fun, fun, fun?

You can see my cat, cat, cat,