Little Boy Blue Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum Free Children's Books Audio Library read-aloud,book-club,books,free-audiobooks,reading,talking-books,
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this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org the cat and the fiddle a selection from mother goose and prose by l frank baum read by west winds 12. hey diddle diddle the cat in the fiddle the cow jumped over the moon the little dog laughed to see such sport and the dish ran off with the spoon perhaps you think this verse is all nonsense and that the things it mentions could never have happened but they did happen as you will understand when i have explained them all to you clearly little bobby was the only son of a small farmer who lived out of town upon a country road bobby's mother looked after the house and bobby's father took care of the farm and bobby himself who was not very big helped them both as much as he was able it was lonely upon the farm especially when his father and mother were both busy at work but the boy had one way to amuse himself that served to pass many an hour when he would not otherwise have known what to do he was very fond of music and his father one day brought him from the town a small fiddle or violin which he soon learned to play upon i don't suppose he was a very fine musician but the tunes he played pleased himself as well as his father and mother and bobby's spittle soon became his constant companion one day in the warm summer the farmer and his wife determined to drive to the town to sell their butter and eggs and bring back some groceries in exchange for them and while they were gone bobby was to be left alone we shall not be back until late in the evening said his mother for the weather is too warm to drive very fast but i have left you a dish of bread and milk for your supper and you must be a good boy and amuse yourself with your fiddle until we return bobby promised to be good and look after the house and then his father and mother climbed into the wagon and drove away to the town the boy was not entirely alone for there was a big black tabby cat lying upon the floor in the kitchen and the little yellow dog barking at the wagon as it drove away and the big muley cow lowing in the pasture down by the brook animals are often very good company and bobby did not feel nearly as alone as he would had there been no living thing about the house besides he had some work to do in the garden pulling up the weeds that grew thick in the carrot bed and when the last faint sounds of the wheels had died away he went into the garden and began his task the little dog went too for dogs love to be with people and to watch what is going on and he sat down near bobby and cooked up his ears and the wagged his tail and seemed to take a great interest in the weeding once in a while he would rush away to chase a butterfly or bark at a beetle that crawled through the garden but he always came back to the boy and kept near his side by and by the cat which found it lonely in the big empty kitchen now that bobby's mother was gone came walking into the garden also and lay down upon a path in the sunshine and lazily watched the boy at his work the dog and the cat were good friends having lived together so long that they did not care to fight each other to be sure tauser as the little dog was called sometimes tried to tease [ __ ] being himself very mischievous but when the cat put out her sharp claws and showed her teeth tauser like a wise little dog quickly ran away and so they managed to get along in a friendly manner by the time the carrot bed was well weeded the sun was sinking behind the edge of the forest and the new...
