"So it was pleasant weather, and they all come and brung the babies,
the old grasshopper skippin' along as nimble and steppin' on the
shawl that was wrapped round his young one. And the snake-feeders
they helped Miss Katydid over the lowest fence-rail, and here come
Big Ant Black with such a string behind her it looked like a funeral
instead of a family percession and she twisted her neck from side to
side as soon as she see the great big apple, kind of wonderin' if
they couldn't carry it off.
"Little Ant Red had all her children's heads combed and the best
cheers set out, and she had on her good dress and white apron, and
she says right and left, 'Hoddy-do, sir? hoddy-do, marm? Come right
in and take cheers. And they all shook hands with her as if they'd
never dreamt of callin' her a witch, and fell right on to the apple
and begun to eat. And they all e't and e't, till they'd made holes in
the rind and hollered it out. And Big Ant Black she gits her family
started, and they carries off chunk after chunk of that apple till
the road was black and white speckled between her house and the
apple-tree.
"Little Ant Red she walks around urgin' them all to help
theirselves, and that made them all feel pleasant to her.
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