We always make some men of snow,

And if you study well each page,

You’ll find the Parrot in his cage.

Little Curly-Tail called out one morning,

“A Happy New Year, A Happy New Year,

And January at last is here.”

Curly-Tail curled his little tail up tighter and tighter, as he ran down stairs three steps at a time, and he set the table and got breakfast, before Daddy Do-Little had a chance to answer him.

Curly-Tail kept humming over and over, “A Happy New Year, A Happy New Year.”

“Hush, what is that?

A-rap, a-tap,”