Next morning Baby woke up very happy, because she was at home.
And she lay and listened to the day getting up, which was rather a favourite thing of Baby's.
And first the Policeman tramped by in boots.
Then a cock at the farm crew a lot to say it was dawn, when it wasn't.
And after that just as the dark began to grow dim, a thrush in the lilac under the window cleared its throat, and began to shout,
"I'm first! I'm first! I'm first!"
And that woke a robin in the yew-hedge which piped,
"Cheek! Cheek! Cheek!" and began to laugh in its little way.
Then a rook sailed out to work, groaning,
"Aw! aw! aw!" which is rook for "Oh! oh! oh!" which is short for "Oh dear! oh dear! oh dear!" for the rook hates work and loves grumbling.