DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY
"DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY has come to town
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown,"
sang the farmer's pretty daughter beneath Puss, Junior's, window. There she stood, bending over her flower bed, the pink strings of her bonnet floating on the morning breeze.
Puss hurriedly pulled on his boots and ran outside. "Good morning! I see your flowers are still in bed."
"Daffy and Down and Dilly are very lazy, I fear," laughed the farmer's pretty daughter; "they'll never get to town to buy a new gown if they don't hurry."
"I hope they won't meet any bad crows on their journey," replied Puss.
"And I hope they won't have any bumpety bumps!" said the farmer's pretty daughter.
Just then the farmer came out of the barn leading Puss, Junior's, Good Gray Horse.