Whenever he catches a squirrel or hare,
He drops him into his sack with care,
And then he says with a terrible grin,
“I’ll eat you up before you get thin!”
ACORN COTTAGE
Mr. Wicked Wolf has a dreadful grin;
His teeth are bright and shiny like a piece of tin;
And wouldn’t you be frightened if he should say to you;
“I’ll eat you up before you count one billion twenty-two”?
Well, that’s what Mr. Wicked Wolf said just as I finished the story before this, and I would have added a P. S. and told you, only I was afraid you’d stay awake all night wondering how the little rabbit would ever get away. But never mind. I won’t let that dreadful wolf hurt him, not if I have to get a gun and go after him myself.