Then at exactly that minute, the Clown began to want a cup of tea. He wanted it so badly he could hardly wait, but there was no fire and he shouted:
“To fill the wood-box and tend the fire,
If I were a boy I’d never tire.”
Danny-Do-Little took the hint at once, and he ran out and got an armful of wood, and made a fire and put on the tea-pot, and soon the water was boiling merrily for a cup of tea.
What did the Clown do, do you suppose?
He balanced the tea cup on his nose!
Every time he did a trick Danny-Do-Little tried to do the same, and together, they burst into merry peals of laughter.
The Clown was hungry and he dearly loved hard boiled eggs so he shouted:
“Danny-Do-Little is it best
To leave eggs out in the nest?”