You had better carry I suppose.”
Sure enough, Curly-Tail did have a cold, and so he came back good naturedly, and got the handkerchief and started again to the grocers after the sugar.
This time he did not even get as far as the garden gate when Daddy Do-Little rapped on the window, crying,
“It seems to me it’s rather funny,
To go for sugar without money.”
“And He Started Down the Road”
Curly-Tail laughed and came back with a hop and a skip and a bound.