“Oh, this is the little wretch who pulled my sister’s legs off, and my father’s wings, and sang a rude song aout “Daddy, daddy longlegs,” instead of speaking of my respected parents as ‘D.Longlegs, Esq.’ as a gentleman should be adddresed.”
“Let us pull him to pieces,” they all shouted, and off went a leg, and between pain and fright Tommy knew no more.
Thus he found himself completely surrounded by animals and birds who closed round him and asked him whether he was sorry for the past, and if he intended to be in the future kind and merciful, or harsh and unkind to animals.
Tommy at once said, “I will be kind and good, do let me go home to my mother.”
