“Why need I turn in my toes?” cried out Gosling Goose one day. “Little boys don’t, and I think it’s why they can run faster than we!”
Mrs. Goose smiled; but Mr. Goose said, “Goslings should be seen and not heard!”
BABYLAND
“KEECOO CARL.”
“Mama, give me a keecoo,” said Carl.
“My child, there isn’t a cookie in the house,” said Mama.
“Do you wis’ you had some?” asked Carl, planting his chubby elbows in Mama’s lap.
“Indeed I do,” said Mama. “I certainly do wish that when Bridget went, she had left something in the house to eat!”
Five minutes later, Carl, with his mama’s large travelling bag on his arm, closed the back gate behind him, and trudged down the street.
A “lovely lady” that Carl knew lived in the first house round the corner, and he walked up to the front door and rang the bell.