In a hollow tree-stump school.
It's nice to come in early,
And never break a rule."
Then it was Miss Lady Bug's turn, and, fluttering her wings, she sang:
"The school bell goes 'ding-dong, ding-dong!'
That's really half of this—my song.
The other half I now will sing:
The school bell goes 'dong-ding, dong-ding!'"
Well, I wish you could have heard the animal boys and girls laugh at that. They laughed so much they could not study. Really, I wish you could have heard them. Oh, no, on second thought perhaps I don't wish that.
No; if you had heard them you wouldn't want to study your lessons, and then you might be kept in, and you'd blame me for telling you about it. I guess it's better, after all, that you didn't hear them.