“Will you ask for white, or brown,
When you come into the town?”
Then a very surprising thing happened.
A great shout was heard and the Fourteen Little Darling Dogs came trooping down the road.
Daddy Do-Little was thoroughly and entirely cross at this unlooked for interruption, and he shouted,
“Be it fairy tale or fable,
To entertain them I’m not able.”
Curly-Tail danced up to him and whispered, “Snowmen, let the Darling Dogs stay outside and make Snowmen.”
The Fourteen Little Darling Dogs came on with a whoop and a bound, and Daddy Do-Little shouted,