The Roly-Polys all began to talk at once.

Grandpa Grimes shook his head. “One at a time, please,” he said.

Then Freddie and Teddie and Humpty Dumpty all held up their hands.

Grandpa Grimes nodded to Teddie, who said:

“I fell asleep when you were telling about a dwarf.”

Then Freddie said, “I fell asleep when you were telling about the Oak-Tree Fairy.”

Humpty Dumpty did not say a thing.

Grandpa Grimes is old and gray,