As they could not find anything Sly Foot had taken, they all hastened away to the grocers, rattling their pennies in their pockets.
Soon they bought doughnuts, and cookies, and crackers, and ginger snaps to fill up Daddy Do-Little’s jars.
As they came to his house they heard the old fellow saying,
“There’s something to worry me without fail,
I wonder what happened to Curly-Tail.”
Sly Foot Bound Curly-Tail to a Chair
When he saw Curly-Tail and the Fourteen Little Darling Dogs with their little bags of cookies and doughnuts, and ginger snaps, and crackers, he was so pleased, he forgot he was old and cross and ran out smiling to meet them.