For Santa Claus will soon appear.”
Sammy Small Tail replied:
“Click, click, click, the needles say,
She gave every stocking she had, away.”
One and all the animals went to work and made a stocking three feet long, and one foot wide! They made it for Old Mother Bear!
Charley Chatter-Box put in a cocoanut and Old Shaggy Brother put in an orange and Sister Pussy Whiskers put in an apple and Cousin Nanny Goat put in a plum, and the Mad March Hare put in a new cup and saucer, and Sammy Small Tail put in a cookie.
They crept to Old Mother Bear’s House and crept to the window and stole in silently, and hung up the stocking.
They pinned a card on it, which said:
“One good turn deserves another,
Here is a stocking for Old Bear Mother.”