Well, this little girl thought this would never do, and so did the Sky-blue Rooster. So, one day, she went to the Pink Hen and said to her:
"Snail, snail, come out of your hole, or else I'll beat you as black as a coal!"
And the Sky-blue Rooster said to her:
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star!"
I don't know what they meant by it, but the Pink Hen knew, for she went straight to her nest and laid a little white egg. The Sky-blue Rooster was so tickled that he turned fourteen somersaults right off in succession, and sung "The Star-Spangled Banner" all through three times, standing on the tip of his longest tail feathers. But the Pink Hen only said "Tra la la!" she was such a lazy thing.
[THE PROFITEER]
I took some eggs to market
All on a summer's day.
I couldn't get high prices,
So I threw them all away.
And then, my dears, how awful,
(Exactly as I feared)
The neighbors ran me out of town
Because I profiteered.