You have
frightened me nearly into hysterics, and had you been lost your mother
would have been quite disappointed."
The little girl was silent for a time; then she answered,
"I will promise not to run away if you will let me play as other
children do. But if you do not allow me to run and romp and dig in the
ground, I shall keep running away, no matter how many horrid spiders
come to frighten me!"
And Nurse Holloweg, who had really been much alarmed at so nearly
losing her precious charge, thought it wise to agree to Miss Muffet's
terms.
She kept her word, too, and when Little Miss Muffet went back to her
home in the city her cheeks were as red as roses and her eyes sparkled
with health. And she grew, in time, to be a beautiful young lady, and
as healthy and robust as she was beautiful. Seeing which, the doctor
put an extra large fee in his bill for advising that the little girl
be taken to the country; and Mr. Muffet paid it without a word of
protest.
Even after Miss Muffet grew up and was married she never forgot the
day that she ran away, nor the curds and whey she ate for her supper,
nor the great spider that frightened her away from the tuffet.
Three Wise Men of Gotham
Three Wise Men of Gotham
Three Wise Men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl.
If the bowl had been stronger
My tale had been longer.
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