Once he shouted,
“Oh Three Little Kittens,
Tell, where are your mittens?”
“Our mittens,” cried Dot and Tot, “Oh dear, oh dear, we had forgotten all about our mittens.”
At this very minute a very exciting thing happened.
Three Little Foxes wearing three pairs of mittens came dancing down the roadway.
THEY CAME NEARER AND NEARER EVERY MINUTE.
They ran up to the house and showed the mittens they were wearing, and they flattened their noses against the window pane.
They cried, “Let us in, pray let us in, we are so cold we are freezing our noses and toeses.”
I don’t know what in the world would have happened but the Little Old Man of the Fire leaped out in his jacket of red and yellow, crying,