Gray Rat: You have traveled far, Oh, King, so your news must be true. Will you tell me how you learned it?

King Rat: Yes, I will tell you.

The Cloud hides the Sun.

The Wind blows the Cloud. The Stone Wall stops the Wind. And you make the Stone Wall fall. So you are the most powerful person in the world.

Gray Rat: My King, you are wiser than you were when you went to see the Sun. But I must tell you that there is something in the world more powerful than I.

King Rat: What is it?

Gray Rat: It is Love, my love for the Princess. It is more powerful than the Sun, or the Cloud, or the Wind, or the Stone Wall. It is the most powerful thing in the world.

King Rat: Then you shall marry the Princess, for only love is good enough for my beautiful daughter.

Little Boy Blue: Good morning, Farmer Brown.

Farmer Brown: Good morning, little boy.

Little Boy Blue: Do you want a boy to help on your farm?

Farmer Brown: Well, yes, I should like a good, bright boy to look after my sheep and my

COWS.

Little Boy Blue: Oh, I could do that.

Farmer Brown: Are you sure you could keep the cows from the corn and the sheep from the meadow?

Little Boy Blue: Yes, indeed! But why don't you want the sheep to go into the meadow?

Farmer Brown: I am letting the grass in the meadow grow high. Soon we will cut it for hay.

Little Boy Blue: Oh, I see. And I know why you don't want the cows to go into the corn. Well, I'll keep them out.

Farmer Brown: What is your name, little boy? Little Boy Blue: My name is Charlie, but every one calls me Little Boy Blue.

Farmer Brown: Why?

Little Boy Blue: Can't you see? Because I dress in blue.

too.

Farmer Brown: Yes, and your eyes are blue,

Little Boy Blue: Yes, and I have a pretty blue horn.

Farmer Brown: Well, Little Boy Blue, I am going to town. You may stay and look after the sheep and cows. Don't let the cows get into the corn, and do keep the sheep out of the meadow.

Little Boy Blue: I will do just what you say, Farmer Brown. If they try to run into the meadow or the corn I will blow my horn.

Farmer Brown: Now, don't go to sleep, little boy.

Little Boy Blue: Go to sleep! I never sleep in the day time.

Farmer Brown: I hope you won't. Good-bye. Little Boy Blue: Good-bye, Farmer Brown.

PART II.

Farmer Brown: There are the sheep in the meadow! And the cows are in the corn! Where is Little Boy Blue?

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn;

The sheep are in the meadow, the cows are in the corn.

Where is the little boy who looks after the sheep?

Little Tommy Tucker: He is under the haycock, fast asleep.

Farmer Brown: Will you wake him?

Little Tommy Tucker: No, not I, for if I did, he'd be sure to cry.

Farmer Brown: Then I must wake him myself. (Shakes Boy Blue and calls) Little Boy Blue, wake up, wake up! Come blow your horn!

Little Boy Blue: (Sleepily) What's the matter? Farmer Brown: Matter? You've been asleep. See the sheep in the meadow and the cows in the corn. Blow your horn!

Little Boy Blue: Toot! Too-oot! Too-oo-oot! Farmer Brown: Louder! Louder!

Little Boy Blue: Toot! Too-00т! TOO-00OOT!

Farmer Brown: There, they are beginning to run! Blow again, louder still!

Little Boy Blue: Toot! Too-00т! TOO-00OOT! TOO-00-00-00T!