Then the funniest thing happened.
Daddy Do-Little turned up his cup, and there inside, lay a package of garden seed.
He took up his saucer, there lay another package of seed.
He looked in his oat-meal bowl, there lay another package of seeds.
He said,
“I’m surprised indeed to-day,
In the merry month of May!”
Under everything he picked up was a package of garden seeds, a present from his little friends.
Suddenly he remembered that he did not like to work very well, so he said,