“We’re afraid of the snail!” said one, who had sung the song.
“Nonsense!” laughed Uncle Wiggily. “She wouldn’t hurt a lightning bug! Come here, I’ll show you how to make her pull in her horns!”
Slowly and carefully the four-and-twenty tailors came back on their tippy-tiptoes.
“What did you want to catch a snail for, anyhow?” asked the bunny uncle.
“Make her put in her horns so she won’t look so much like a cow and scare us, and we’ll tell you,” said the singing tailor.
Uncle Wiggily laughed and suddenly cried:
“Snail, snail, pull in your horn,
Here’s Jimmie, the duck boy,
Looking for corn!”
Then the snail quickly pulled in her horns and crawled away and she didn’t hurt the tailors any, and they didn’t tickle her with a needle, thimble or even a spool of hooks and eyes.