Then out laughed Matty,
And out laughed Patty,
And out laughed Frederick, too;
But poor little Billy,
He felt so silly,
He didn’t know, what—TO—DO!!!
THE PERSON WHO DID NOT LIKE CATS.
Once upon a time there was a Person who did not like cats. She did not like dogs, either, but she never said anything about that, because the Big Master and the two Little Masters and the four Little Mistresses were all very fond of dogs, and liked to have them lie round under everybody’s feet and get white hairs all over everybody’s clothes, and take up the whole hearth-rug and run away with the roast beef, and bark to be let out and then howl to be let in, and shake themselves when they were wet, and do all the things that dogs do,—they liked all these things, so the Person who did not like cats never dared to say a word.