They cried out,
“We are happy now because,
Of mince pie, Mrs. Santa Claus!”
Mrs. Santa Claus opened the panel in the wall and went back into the house. She asked to see the coat, which they had tied up in a neat bundle.
The first Little Darling Dog began to untie the string which held the bundle, and the bundle hopped about in the strangest way.
Then the next Little Darling Dog said, “Let me untie it,” and the next one said, “I will untie it in a minute.”
At that very moment there, before their very noses, the bundle jumped out of the window and was gone!
The Fourteen Little Darling Dogs thought their work was all lost and they began to weep and wail, but Curly-Tail said,
“Cheer up, cheer up, for by the by,