All on a dolly’s lap,

Tit, tat, toe!”

Three little
kittens
sitting in a
row”

sang Sewing Bird when Mary Frances came for the next lesson.

“Three in a row on a dolly’s lap?” said Mary Frances. “Not my dolly’s, I guess—she couldn’t hold three.”

Then sang Sewing Bird:

“Come riddle me this,

Come riddle me that,—

Your dolly can hold