One Ink-Bottle Baby said, “I am not sleepy at all. I rolled off the desk and I feel wide-awake!”
This little Baby’s name was Molly. The Ink-Bottle Mamma put all of her babies to bed except Molly, and Molly said,
“I am wide-awake as if it were day,
I’ll sit on the parlor rug and play.”
The Ink-Bottle Mamma was so sleepy herself that she did not know what to do. Pretty soon she said, “Listen, Molly, and I will tell you a fairy tale.”
Then Molly cried, “I must wake Polly up to hear the fairy tale.” Polly was Molly’s twin sister.
Will you believe it? Before the Ink-Bottle Mamma could say “No!” Molly had gone upstairs and had waked all the Babies up before she found Polly!
The Ink-Bottle Babies looked so much alike it was hard to tell them apart!
All the Ink-Bottle Babies woke up and cried, “We want to hear the fairy tale, Ma! Please tell us all a fairy tale!”
Then the Ink-Bottle Mamma said, “Get back into bed, every one of you, and I will tell you a story.”