"My name is a great one," said the Lettuce head. "It has been spoken by one of the most illustrious soldiers of modern times, and is, in fact, engraved upon most of his monuments."
"Your name?" cried the Egg-plant. "Nonsense!"
"It is true," said the Lettuce head. "The soldier's name was Grant, and on all his statues you are likely to find his famous words Lettuce Have Peace."
"I tell you," said the Shepherd's Dog, "our lambs know how to treat those geese."
"What do they do?" asked the Cow.
"Why, only this morning as we passed them the geese hissed us, and those lambs simply looked at 'em scornfully, and said, 'Bah!'"
"Do you like fishing?" asked the Carrot of the Angle-worm.
"Well—yes," said the Angle-worm. "That is, I like it down near the Jersey coast better than in the mountains."