"Laws! Miss Dimple," giggled Bubbles.
"You needn't 'laws,' you know you can, for you've often told them to me; now begin, right away; it will keep you awake if it doesn't do anything else."
"Well," said Bubbles, smoothing down her apron, "oncet they was a bummelybee, and a snake, and a bird."
"What kind of a bird?" interrupted Florence.
"Erra—erra—bluebird," said Bubbles.
"All right, go on."
"The snake wanted fur to git the bluebird, and the bummelybee was a-flyin, and a-buzzin' so, it made such a 'straction the snake couldn't git fixed fur to chawm the bird nohow.
"'Jess yuh quit yo' foolin',' said the snake.
"'I no foolin',' said the bummelybee, 'what's got yuh anyhow?'
"'I ain't had no brekfuss,' said the snake.