“I will burn your nose, I will burn your toes,
So away and away the wise fox goes.”
The Three Little Foxes were so afraid at that they ran off as fast as their legs could carry them.
They wore the mittens of course that belonged to the Kittens.
Dot and Tot began to weep and wail,
“Oh dear, oh dear, we have lost our mittens,
Oh dear, oh dear, we are sad little kittens.”
If you guessed one hundred years you could never guess what brave little Trot did.
He ran and got the old gold-fish bowl that stood empty on the table and said, “Will you cry a bowl full? Will you cry a pitcher full? Will you cry a tea-kettle full;—keep it up, keep it up.”
Dot and Tot did not shed another tear and the Little Old Man of the Fire said,