you?

Well, Grandfather Goosey-Gander started for home, and Jimmie and Lulu
asked Sammie and Susie to come and play with them. Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy
said they might, and they had a fine time under the trees in the woods,
playing tag of all kinds; cross-tag, wood-tag, dirt-tag, leaf-tag,
stump-tag, and a new kind, called acorn-tag, which I will explain about
later. Then the bunny children went home with their nurse and Jimmie and
Lulu also went home and about two days after that a very funny thing
happened.

What it was you shall hear to-morrow night if the trolley car doesn't get
off the track, but I'll let you know this much--it's going to be about the
rooster trying to swim.

STORY X

THE ROOSTER TRIES TO SWIM

Grandfather Goosey-Gander was quite lame the next day from having been
caught in the brush pile, and could not go very far away from the duck
pen. He did manage to hobble around on the crutch which Nurse Jane
Fuzzy-Wuzzy made for him, and he sat in a sunny corner, reading the
newspaper with his glasses which Susie Littletail found. He was reading
away as Alice, Lulu and Jimmie Wibblewobble were playing about on the edge
of the pond, and the little duck children made so much noise that the old
grandfather could not understand what was in the papers.

"Can't you children play something quiet?" he asked for Papa and Mamma
Wibblewobble had gone visiting, and Grandfather Goosey-Gander was left to
mind the house. "Play some nice, easy game," he suggested.

"Let's play acorn tag," said Lulu.

"All right, you're it," answered Jimmie. So they each took an acorn which
they found in the woods and put it in their bills. Then Lulu had to chase
after Jimmie and Alice, and when she touched either one of them with her
wing she had to call out: "You can't run a little bit, I've tagged you,
and now you're it." Yes, that's what she had to call, and she had to do it
without letting the acorn fall out of her bill. Now, if you think that's a
very easy thing to do, just you try it, that's all.

Lulu didn't have much trouble putting her wing on Jimmie or Alice, but,
every time she tried to call out the little verse the acorn would roll out
of her bill and she'd have to start all over again, or it wouldn't have
been fair. So it was some time before she got over being "it," and then it
was Jimmie's turn.

Well, they played acorn tag for quite a while, and, when they got tired of
that they all went in swimming. They