Tom. Where did you get in?
Lobster. Through that round hole at the top.
Tom. Then why don’t you get out through it?
Lobster. Because I can’t. I have jumped upwards, downwards, backwards, and sideways, at least four thousand times, and I can’t get out. I always get up underneath then and can’t find the hole.
Tom. Stop a bit. Turn your tail up to me, and I’ll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won’t stick in the spikes. [Tom pulls lobster.] Hello, here is a pretty business. Now take your great claws and break the point off those spikes, and then we shall both get out easily.
Lobster. Dear me, I never thought of that!
WHY THE JELLYFISH HAS NO SHELL
Characters—Fishes, Turtle, three Monkeys, Jellyfish, Queen Osa