About this time a very exciting thing happened.
Two little girls came and stood by the hay-stack. They said, “The old hen has stolen her nest. We will try to find it.”
Then Teddie and Freddie crept farther under the hay, but Humpty Dumpty rolled out!
The little girls clapped their hands and said, “Here is an egg, but what a queer egg it is!”
The first little girl caught Humpty Dumpty up in her apron and the second little girl looked under the hay at the foot of the hay-stack.
Teddie and Freddie were very much frightened. They went under the hay-stack so far that no one could find them.
Then the little girls ran to the house, carrying Humpty Dumpty with them.
“See, Grandma,” they shouted, “the old hen has stolen her nest beside the hay-stack, and here is one of the eggs.”
“The idea of any one calling me an egg!” thought Humpty Dumpty.