"This corn is fit to cut, I see;

But we our neighbor's help must borrow,

So tell them we begin to-morrow."

Just after this the lark returned,

When from her brood this news she learned.

"Ah! dearest mother," then, said they,

"Pray, let us all begone to-day."

"My dears," said she, "you need not fret,

I shall not be uneasy yet;

For if he waits for neighbor's aid,