In the middle of the dispute in came two servants. One seized the pot and the other seized the kettle, and they scrubbed them both within an inch of their lives. So I suppose the servants thought both were black. What do you think?
HOW THE TURTLE GOT HIS DINNER
It was the small black turtle’s dinner time. He drew in his head and watched. A bluebottle buzzed by, singing. Snap! out came the turtle’s head. The bluebottle’s song was over, the turtle was eating him for dinner.
“A bluebottle is a delicious morsel,” said the turtle aloud to anyone who might happen to be passing.
He dined that day on foolish bluebottles who didn’t know he had a head.
THE CATERPILLAR CAUGHT IN THE RAIN
The other day a caterpillar was out walking on a leaf, when it began to rain. He had no umbrella, but that did not bother him. He crawled under the leaf, and waited for the shower to be over.
When the rain-drops stopped pattering over his head, he stuck out his head to see whether the sky had cleared. It had. A beautiful rainbow was just fading out of the sky.
Up the caterpillar climbed, dry and comfortable, and went on with his walk.