"Bogie Man says he is to be kept in custardy for a thousand years," said Blue Hen's Chicken.
Little Miss Easter Egg.
"I know that's an exaggeration," said Billy; "why, I can't live that long."
"Of course not," answered the Official Candler; "and if you're not alive, what difference will it make whether it's a thousand years or ten thousand?"
"Come, come! We're wasting time," fussed the Blue Hen's Chicken. "To the Packing House jail with him."
"I'll stick to him," cried Al Bumen, the policeman, shaking his egg-beater at Billy fiercely; "come along now! There's no use trying to resist, for I have you egg-sactly where I want you."
And Billy, seeing that it was indeed useless to try to escape as things then were, went sulkily off, with Al Bumen's moist hand in his collar.