“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too,
We’ll make a little slipper of blue,”
sang the Fairy Shoemakers, and Little June clapped her hands singing,
“I need new slippers, I need new shoes,
If they’re for me, that’s glorious news.”
One day June went on her way sadly, for one little toe showed through one little slipper.
By and by as she sat down on a log to rest two little tears began to trickle down her cheeks.
At that very minute a little fairy jumped right on the little toe, that peeped out from the little slipper, singing,
“A rat, a tat, tat, how can I see,