“Who fed the cat?” asked Grandpa Grimes.
Then Freddie got a saucer, and Teddie poured milk into it, and the old cat purred and drank her milk.
The twins got two little stools and sat down at Grandpa’s feet.
“Did you lock the back door?” asked Grandpa with a twinkle in his eye. “We don’t wish to have any tramps coming in here.”
So Teddie went and locked the door and they thought that now Grandpa would surely begin.
Then Grandpa said:
“How can I tell the story right,
Without a ray of candle-light?”
Freddie lighted the lamp, and then Grandpa said: