All His Buttons When a Mouse Came
"'Who turned all the barns upside down and then put them right side up again? I did that.'
"'Who took the salt out of the sea and put it back again? Who took the fishes out of the sea and put them back again? That was me.'
"'Who started the catfish fighting the cats? Who made the slippery elms slippery? Who made the King of the Broken Bottles a wanderer wandering over the world mumbling, "Easy, easy"? Who opened the windows of the stars and threw fishes, cats and rabbits all over the frames of the sky? I did, I did, I did.'
"All the time Bozo kept on speaking the buttons kept on busting because he had to stop so often to fill his lungs with new wind to go on speaking. The public square was filled with piles of buttons that kept busting off from Bozo the Button Buster that day.
"And at last a mouse came, a sneaking, slippery, quick little mouse. He ran with a flash
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