HANS GETS A FIRST-RATE BITE. THEN HE CATCHES A FISH
AND PULLS HIM OUT.
HANS FINDS IT HARDER TO HOLD
THE FISH THAN TO CATCH HIM.
THEN HANS BEGINS TO WONDER
WHETHER HE OR THE FISH IS CAUGHT.
THE FISH NOW CATCHES HANS
AND PULLS HIM IN.
HANS AND THE FISH AGREE
TO STOP CATCHING EACH OTHER.

[WHO PUT OUT THE TEA-PARTY?]


By Ellen Frances Terry.


One day, when I was a small girl, my little sister Katy and I found in the yard a dry-goods box, in which the new carpets had been sent home. As usual, we ran to where grandma sat knitting and nodding:

"Oh, grandma, mayn't we have it?" cried I.

"Yet hab it, dranma?" echoed Katy.