ONCE UPON A TIME THE OLD MAN OF THE FIRE SAID TO THE KING
The King replied, “I will give you a thousand miles of sun to burn morning and evening.”
The Little Old Man of the Fire ran over hill and dale singing,
“I am the Little Old Man of the Fire,
Ha, ha, I am happy, I never tire.”
My! what a long search he had.
He found plenty of kittens who hated to do kitchen work, and he was afraid they all hated to wash dishes.
He was about to give up the search, when one night he saw a light on a far hill, twinkle, twinkle.