ONE pleasant summer day Jamie’s mamma said they would have tea out under the trees, because it was papa’s birthday.
THE NAUGHTY ROOSTER.
She spread a pink cloth on the table, and brought out some pretty dishes. Jamie thought it was fine fun.
He helped to carry out the biscuits and strawberries, and he put the knives and spoons by the side of the plates.
They had to hurry, because pretty soon the five o’clock train would come in, and papa would be on it.
When mamma went into the house to make the tea she gave Jamie a piece of cake and told him to sit down on the grass and rest his tired little feet.
Jamie liked to sit in that pretty spot. There were green grass and daisies and buttercups all about him, and oh! how good the cake tasted.
Pretty soon the old rooster saw that Jamie was alone, and that he had something good to eat.
So he called to his family: “Come quick! come to supper.”