And to each of them the little slyboots replied:
“Fallen into the fire, and so will you
On, little Drumikin. Tum-pa, tum-too;
Tum-pa, tum-too; tum-pa, tum-too!”
Then they all sighed to think of the tender little morsel they had let slip.
At last the jackal came limping along, for all his sorry looks as sharp as a needle, and he too called out:
“Drumikin! Drumikin!
Have you seen Lambikin?”
And Lambikin, curled up in his snug little nest, replied gaily:
“Fallen into the fire, and so will you