Go on Bubbles, you've got to tell us a
story."
"Laws! Miss Dimple," giggled Bubbles.
"You needn't 'laws,' you know you can, for you've often told them to me;
now begin, right away; it will keep you awake if it doesn't do anything
else."
"Well," said Bubbles, smoothing down her apron, "oncet they was a
bummelybee, and a snake, and a bird."
"What kind of a bird?" interrupted Florence.
"Erra--erra--bluebird," said Bubbles.
"All right, go on."
"The snake wanted fur to git the bluebird, and the bummelybee was
a-flyin, and a-buzzin' so, it made such a 'straction the snake couldn't
git fixed fur to chawm the bird nohow.
"'Jess yuh quit yo' foolin',' said the snake.
"'I no foolin',' said the bummelybee, 'what's got yuh anyhow?'
"'I ain't had no brekfuss,' said the snake.
"'Well go 'long 'n git it; I'm not a hinderin'.'
"'Yes, yuh is,' said the snake, 'I can't do nothin' fur yo' buzzin'.'
"Then the bummelybee flown off, but he didn't go very fur, he wanted to
see what the snake was up to. He kinder suspicioned it wasn't up to no
good, so he jess watched the snake, and bimeby he seen the bluebird come
up as peart as anythin', and he set down on the limb of a tree."
Here Bubbles stopped to take breath, and then went on,
"Well, he seen the snake a-crawlin' along the grass, a-crawlin',
a-crawlin', as crafty till it got right in front of the bluebird, and
the bluebird he jess set and looked, and didn't move, or say nothin'.
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