Cheer up, be Ready and wagging,
Cheer up, cheer up.”
Listening to Robin’s song of cheer
I cannot tell you how much this helped Ready. He wagged his tail at once and decided he would take a little run in the moonlight, so as to be on the lookout for chances.
As he ran along, he noticed a great many dogs going by. Dogs he had never seen, dogs old, dogs young, dogs middle-aged, all in a great hurry. He asked several of them where they were going, but few had time to answer him.
One said, “Aren’t you going?” and several mumbled something that he could not make out.
At last one very fat and panting dog stopped to rest a minute.
“Won’t you please tell me where you are going?” asked Ready.
“Why, don’t you know?” was the answer. “This is the 21st of June!”