THE LITTLE RED HEN
An Old EnglishFolk Tale
RetoldandIllustrated
by
FLORENCE WHITE WILLIAMS
The
Saalfield Publishing Company
Chicago - Akron, Ohio - New York
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
COPYRIGHT, 1918
BY
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Little Red Hen
Little Red Hen lived in a
barnyard. She spent almost all of
her time walking about the barnyard
in
her
picketty-pecketty
fashion,
scratching
everywhere
for
worms.
he dearly loved fat, delicious wormsand felt they were absolutely necessaryto the health of her children. As
often as
she
found a
worm
she
would
call
“Chuck-chuck-chuck!”to herchickies.
hen they were gathered abouther, she would distribute choicemorsels of her tid-bit. A busylittle body was she!
A cat usually napped lazily in the barndoor, not even bothering herself to scarethe rat who ran here and there as
he pleased.
And
as for
the pig
who lived
in the
sty—he
did
not care what
happenedso long as he could eat and grow fat.
ne day the Little Red Hen found aSeed. It was a Wheat Seed, but theLittle Red Hen was so accustomed to bugsand worms that she supposed this to