When Ruth comes home from school she smells something good. “Dinner’s all ready,” calls Bessie. Ruth answers, “Come father, come mother. I’m hungry.”
So Ruth and her father and mother sit down at the table and they drink the milk and they eat the bread and the spinach and the potatoes and the chicken which the milk horse and the bread horse and the grocery auto and the butcher’s wagon brought in the morning.
THE GROCERY MAN
Prrrip! prrrip! prrrip! the telephone rings in the grocery store. “Hello,” says the grocery man. “Who are you?”
“I’m Ruth’s mother. Good morning, Mr. Grocery Man.”
“Good morning, Ruth’s Mother. What can I send you today?”
“Please, Mr. Grocery Man, send me some potatoes and some graham crackers and a package of sugar and some carrots.”