But alas and alack! only Echo calls back—
‘Oh—why—does—he—wabble—his—nose?’”
The Laziest Beaver hummed the chorus very much off the key and so loudly that Buddie scarcely could make out the words of it.
“I do wish people wouldn’t talk when some one is trying to sing,” she thought; and as Colonel began the second verse she got up and crossed over to where he was sitting, and paid no further attention to the Laziest Beaver.
“Now, every one knows where time goes when it flies,
And why a round robin is round;
Why moles are stone-blind, while potatoes have eyes,
Although they both live underground;
“Which side a worm turns on, and which side a lane;
And where the wind goes when it blows;—