g, Robert's Mother. What can I send you today?"

"Please, Mr. Grocery Man, send me some prunes and some macaroni and some
salt and some oatmeal."

"Is that all, Robert's Mother?"

"Yes, that's all. Goodbye, Mr. Grocery Man."

"Goodbye, Robert's Mother."

So the Grocery Man hangs up the telephone and takes another basket and
in the basket he puts some prunes and some macaroni and some salt and
some oatmeal. Then he carries Ruth's basket out and puts it in a wagon
on the street. Then he carries John's basket out and puts it in the
wagon. At last he carries Robert's basket out and puts that in the wagon
with the others. Then the driver jumps to the seat and gathers up the
reins and says "Go on, Old Dan," and clopperty, clopperty clop! off goes
Old Dan down the street.

Old Dan goes clopperty, clopperty, clop till he gets to Ruth's house and
there he stops. The driver jumps out and takes the basket and pat, pat,
pat, go his feet running to the door. Prrrr! he rings the bell and gives
Ruth's mother the potatoes, the graham crackers, the sugar and the
carrots. Then pat, pat, pat, he is back in the wagon. "Go on, Old Dan,"
and clopperty, clopperty, clop! off goes Old Dan down the street.

Old Dan goes clopperty, clopperty, clop till he gets to John's house and
there he stops. The driver jumps out and takes another basket and pat,
pat, pat go his feet running to the door. Prrrr! he rings the bell and
gives John's mother the spinach, the apples, the butter and the eggs.
Then pat, pat, pat, he is back in the wagon. "Go on, Old Dan," and
clopperty, clopperty, clop! off goes Old Dan down the street.

Old Dan goes clopperty, clopperty, clop till he gets to Robert's house
and there he stops. The driver jumps out, takes another basket and pat,
pat, pat, he is at the door. Prrrr! he rings the bell and gives Robert's
mother the prunes, the macaroni, the salt and the oatmeal. Then pat,
pat, pat, he is back in the wagon. "Go on, Old Dan," and clopperty,
clopperty, clop! off goes old Dan down the street.

So Old Dan goes clopperty, clopperty, clop from house to house until he
has left a basket with everybody who telephoned to the grocery man in
the morning.

THE JOURNEY

This story, which is an adaptation of a five-year-old's story quoted in
the introduction, embodies the details given to me by another
three-year-old child. The sound of the train should be intoned, a