“Oh! oh! oh!” cried the Ink-Bottle Babies. “It is May-Day! hurrah! hurrah!”
Then they all got up and dressed in a hurry and said, “Oh Ma! may we go to the woods? Oh Pa! may we all go to the woods together?”
Then Mamma and Papa said they might all go to the woods if they would be very careful not to get lost.
The Ink-Bottle Babies each took a cute little basket, and they all went to look for flowers and berries in the woods.
“I wonder if we will meet Red Riding-hood,” said Molly.
“I wonder if we will meet the wolf,” cried Polly.
At that very minute the Ink-Bottle Babies stood still for they heard a voice cry,
“Out of my house and off my land!
How you came here I don’t understand!”