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in
her
picketty-pecketty
fashion,
scratching
everywhere
for
worms.
he dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As
often as
she
found a
worm
she
would
call
hen they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels of her tid-bit. A busy little body was
she!
A cat usually napped lazily in the barn door, not even bothering herself to scare the rat who ran here and there
as
he pleased.
And
as for
the pig
who lived
in the
sty—he
did
ne day the Little Red Hen found a Seed. It was a Wheat Seed, but the Little Red Hen was so accustomed to
bugs and worms that she supposed this to be some new and perhaps very delicious kind of meat. She bit it
gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and
slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
arrying it about, she made many inquiries as to what it might be. She found it was a Wheat Seed and that, if
o she thought of the Pig—upon whom time must hang heavily and of the Cat who had nothing to do, and of
the great fat Rat with his idle hours, and she called loudly:
“Who
will
plant
the
Seed?”
hen she went on with her daily duties through the long summer days, scratching for worms and feeding her
chicks, while
ready for
harvest.
o one day the Little Red Hen chanced to notice how large the Wheat was and that the grain was ripe, so she
ran about calling briskly: “Who will cut the Wheat?”
“Well,
then,”
said the
Little
Red Hen,
“I will.”
he got the sickle from among the farmer's tools in the barn and proceeded to cut off all of the big plant of
Wheat.
On the ground lay the nicely cut Wheat, ready to be gathered and threshed, but the newest and yellowest and
downiest of Mrs.
Hen's chicks set up a “peep-peep-peeping” in their most vigorous fashion, proclaiming to the world at large,
but most particularly to their mother, that she was neglecting them.
oor Little Red Hen! She felt quite bewildered and hardly knew where to turn.
Her attention was sorely divided between her duty to her children and her duty to the Wheat, for which she
felt responsible.
So, again, in a very hopeful tone, she called out, “Who will thresh the Wheat?”
But the Pig, with a grunt, said, “Not I,” and the Cat, with a meow, said, “Not
I,” and the Rat, with a squeak, said, “Not I.”
So the Little Red Hen, looking, it must be admitted, rather discouraged, said, “Well, I will,
then.”
Of course, she had to feed her babies first, though, and when she had gotten them all to sleep for their
afternoon nap, she
went out and threshed the Wheat. Then she called out: “Who will carry the Wheat to the mill to be
ground?”
Turning their backs with snippy glee, that Pig said, “Not I,”
and
that
Cat
said,
“Not I,”
and
that
Rat
said,
“Not I.”
o the good Little Red Hen could do nothing but say, “I will then.” And she did.
Carrying the sack of Wheat, she trudged off to the distant mill. There she ordered the Wheat ground into
beautiful white flour. When the miller brought her the
flour she
walked
slowly
back all
the way
to her own
barnyard
in her own
picketty-pecketty
fashion.
he even managed, in spite of her load, to catch a nice juicy worm now and then and had one left for the babies
when she reached them. Those cunning little fluff-balls were so glad to see their mother. For the first time,
they really appreciated her.
After this really strenuous day Mrs. Hen retired to her slumbers earlier than usual—indeed, before the
colors came into the sky to herald the setting of the sun, her usual bedtime hour.
She would have liked to sleep late in the morning, but her chicks, joining in the morning chorus of the hen
yard, drove away all hopes of such a luxury.
Even as she sleepily half opened one eye, the thought came to her that to-day that Wheat must, somehow, be
made into bread.
She was not in the habit of making bread, although, of course, anyone can make it if he or she follows the
recipe with care, and she knew perfectly well that she could do it if necessary.
So after her children were fed and made sweet and fresh for the day, she hunted up the Pig, the Cat and the
Rat.
surely help
“Who will
make the
bread?”
the
Pig
said,
“Not
I,”
the
Cat
said,
“Not
I,”
and
the
Rat
said,
“Not
I.”
o the Little Red Hen said once more, “I will then,” and she did.
Feeling that she might have known all the time that she would have to do it all herself, she went and put on a
fresh apron and spotless cook's cap. First of all she set the dough, as was proper. When it was time she
brought out the moulding board and the baking tins, moulded the bread, divided it into loaves, and put them
into the oven to bake. All the while the Cat sat lazily by, giggling and chuckling.
And close at
hand the
vain Rat
powdered
his nose
and admired
himself
in a mirror.
In the distance
could be
snores of
t last the great moment arrived. A delicious odor was wafted upon the autumn breeze. Everywhere the
barnyard citizens sniffed the air with delight.
The Red Hen ambled in her picketty-pecketty way toward the source of all this excitement.
lthough she appeared to be perfectly calm, in reality she could only with difficulty restrain an impulse to
dance and sing, for had she not
done
all
the
work
on
this
wonderful
bread?
mall wonder that she was the most excited person in the barnyard!
She did not know whether the bread would be fit to eat, but—joy of joys!—when the lovely
brown loaves came out of the oven,
Then, probably because she had acquired the habit, the Red Hen called:
“Who
will
eat
the
Bread?”
All the animals in the barnyard were watching hungrily and smacking their lips in anticipation, and
And
she
did.
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