“No, but I am going to eat some of her eggs,” and away crawled the snake.
“I’m glad I am not an egg,” thought Blackie.
Another time Blackie had a nice adventure. She was walking along a country road, and she was quite tired and warm, for the sun was shining brightly. Blackie was hungry too.
All at once she heard a horn blown:
“Toot! Toot! Toot!”
“Ha! I wonder if that can be Dido, the dancing bear?” thought Blackie. “He told me when he went around doing his tricks his master blew on a horn. Perhaps Dido has come out of the circus and is going around dancing as he did at first.”
But Blackie soon saw that it was not Dido’s horn that was being blown. The sound came from a man who was riding on a wagon, and from the wagon came a nice smell of fresh fish.
“Oh, how hungry I am!” thought Blackie. “How I wish I had a piece of fish.”
And what do you think happened? Why, when the wagon came up to Blackie, the man on it stopped tooting his horn and said:
“Hello, pussie! Would you like a nice fish head?”