The scene takes place in a kindergarten, where a bold and fearless visitor has undertaken to tell a story on the spur of the moment to a group of restless children.
She opens thus:
"Yesterday, children, as I came out of my yard, what do you think I saw?"
The elaborately concealed surprise in store was so obvious that Marantha rose to the occasion and suggested, "An el'phunt."
"Why, no. Why should I see an elephant in my yard? It was not nearly so big as that—it was a little thing."
"A fish," ventured Eddy Brown, whose eye fell upon the aquarium in the corner. The raconteuse smiled patiently.
"Now, how could a fish, a live fish, get into my front yard?"
"A dead fish," says Eddy.
He had never been known to relinquish voluntarily an idea.
"No; it was a little kitten," said the story-teller decidedly. "A little white kitten. She was standing right near a big puddle of water. Now, what else do you think I saw?"