The Tale of Kiddie Katydid

TUCK-ME-IN TALES (Trademark Registered) BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY AUTHOR OF SLEEPY-TIME TALES (Trademark Registered) ———————————

Kiddie Sees Benjamin Bat in Front of the Moon
TUCK-ME-IN TALES (Trademark Registered) ———————————
Author of SLEEPY-TIME TALES (Trademark Registered) ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY L. SMITH NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1918, by GROSSET & DUNLAP

Whoever Katy was, and whatever she might have done, nobody in Pleasant Valley knew anything about her except Kiddie Katydid and his numerous and noisy family.
To be sure, many of the wild folk—and the people in the farmhouse, too—remembered hearing her name mentioned the year before.
But they had quite forgotten about her, until August came and Kiddie Katydid and his relations brought her to their minds once more.
Each night the Katydids' rasping chant was repeated again and again: Katy did, Katy did; she did, she did! But since in any crowd there are always a few that want to be different from the rest, now and then some member of Kiddie's clan insisted that Katy didn't—somewhat in this fashion: Katy did, Katy did; she did, she didn't!
However, there were always so many others to drown any such puzzling statement with their shrill clamor that Katy really did do it (whatever it was!) that nobody paid much attention to those few who didn't quite agree.