But the farmer got under the covers,
For sleepy as sleepy was he,
He turned in his bed and fiercely he said,
"Cow, I will sleep! Let me be, let me be!
Cow, I will sleep! Let me be!"

Then Horse he broke from the stable,
And Pig he broke from the pen,
And Cow jumped the fence though she hadn't much sense,
And Cock called Chickens and Hen, and Hen,
He called to Chickens and Hen.

Then up to the farm house door
All followed the Pussy who knew.
Horse whinneyed, Cock crowed, Pig grunted, Cow lowed;
"Get up, Farmer! Whey, cock-a-doo, wee-wee-wee, mooo!
Whey, cock-a-doo, wee-wee-wee, moooo!"

The farmer down under the covers,
He heard and he groaned and he sighed.
He wearily rose and he put on his clothes;
"They need me, I'm coming, I'm coming," he cried,
"They need me, I'm coming," he cried.

"I'll feed Horse, Chickens and Pig,
I'll milk old Cow," said he,
"And when this is done, my work's just begun,
Today I must work, so I see, so I see!
Today I must work, so I see!"

So he fed Horse, Chickens and Pig
And afterwards milked old Cow.
For Farmer must work, he never can shirk!
Today he is working, right now, right now!
Today he is working right now!

WONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WAS!

All the essential points in this story were taken from the story of a
four-year-old's about a horse. He enjoyed the nonsense in telling it.
Some of the four-year-old groups have appreciated the humor; some
five-year-olds have not. Instead they have seemed confused.

WONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WAS!

Once there was a wonderful cow,--only she never was! She always had been
wonderful, ever since she was a baby calf. Her mother noticed it at
once. She was born out in the pasture one sunny morning in June. As soon
as she was born, she got up on her long, thin legs. She wobbled quite a
little for she wasn't very strong. Then she went over to her mother and
put her nose down to her mother's bag and took a drink of milk. This is
what all the old cow's babies had always done so the old cow thought
nothing of that. But when this wonderful last baby calf had drunk its
breakfast, what do you suppose it did? It stood on its head! Now the old
cow had never seen anything like this. It was most surprising! It
frightened her. She called to it: