sang the Fairy Shoemakers as Little June ran through the woods one day.
She stopped and listened and heard the fairy hammers, but she could not see where the fairies were hidden.
Little June looked down at her worn out slippers and said,
“I’d like new slippers, I’d like new shoes,
Of every color, if I could choose.”
She went on to the store, with a basket on her arm, for she was the little errand girl of the family.
As she came back home through the woods, she heard someone singing,
“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too,
We are making a little red slipper for you.”
Little June looked under the broad leaves about her path, and under the toad-stools, but she could not see where the voice came from.