Next day the farmer hitched up his horses and took all the Ink-Bottle Babies home.
They said, “Oh Ma, we want to learn to read. Oh Ma, we will go to school every day!”
The Ink-Bottle Mamma kissed all her babies and sent them to school.
They wanted so much to learn to read fairy tales that they never missed a day of school, from the 16th of October to Thanksgiving.
“They never missed a day of school”
The day before Thanksgiving Molly began to cry on the way home from school. Then Polly began to cry! Pretty soon all the Ink-Bottle Babies took out their twenty-five little pocket handkerchiefs and began to cry!
When they got home Mamma said, “Why do you cry?”