“Don’t ask me again;

Why, I haven’t a chick

Would do such a trick.

We all gave her a feather,

And she wove them together.

I’d scorn to intrude

On her and her brood.

Cluck! Cluck!” said the hen,

“Don’t ask me again.”

“Chirr-a-whirr! Chirr-a-whirr!