Pretty soon Granddaddy Bullfrog closed his eyes. Thinking he was asleep, the bunny boy hopped away up the Old Cow Path, over the hill, till by and by, after a while, and a song and a smile, he came to the Big Red Barn, on the top of which stood the Weathercock on his gilded toe.

“It’s going to rain,

It’s going to rain.

Billy Breeze is

Singing a low refrain.

The swallows are flying

Swift and low.

I must point to the East

With my weather toe!”

sang the Weathercock, whirling about to point at the big black clouds creeping over the bright blue sky.