“Is anything the matter?” asked Uncle Wiggily. “I heard crying.”
“Of course,” spoke the Shoe Lady, “the children always cry when I whip them. Don’t you know how it is in the Mother Goose book:
“‘There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children
She didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth,
Without any bread;
She whipped them all soundly
And sent them to bed.’