But they, too, at length shall o’ercome this foe,
If wisdom’s right law they obey.
THE
WONDERFUL HISTORY
OF
HENNY-PENNY.
One fine summer morning a Hen was picking peas in a farm-yard, under a pea-stack, when a pea fell on her head with such a thump that she thought a cloud had fallen. And she thought she would go to the court and tell the king that the clouds were falling: so she gaed, and she gaed, and she gaed, and she met a Cock, and the Cock said,—
“Where are you going to-day, Henny-penny?”
And she said,—
“Oh, Cocky-locky, the clouds are falling, and I am going to tell the king.”