GRAY GOOSE AND DUNGEMESS CRAB 
75 
“Rimp! Dimp! 
Caught a young clam and a shrimp!” 
What she saw would have looked to us 
very much like a rock with several sticks 
piled about on top of it, but it didn’t look 
a bit like that to Mrs. Goose. She was far 
too wise a mother goose for that, so she went 
racing down the beach calling to her children 
as loudly as she could. 
But it often happens that many youngsters 
are so very much interested in what they 
are playing, and making so much noise about 
it that they cannot hear their mother’s voice. 
It was just so this time. The Gray Goose 
children just went right on singing, 
“Rimp! Dimp! 
Caught a young clam and a shrimp!” 
and never hear at all. And in just a moment 
they were right over that strange rock and 
those sticks. They didn’t see them at all, 
but went swimming right ahead. 
Now, old Dungemess Crab was usually 
content to dine of something much less fine 
