CHAPTER VI
TEMPTATION

HE strawberries ad look very
good and very tempting, and it
crossed Hurly-Burly’s mind that
after his long walk they would

be very refreshing. It is true he had been

told by the toad to keep to the right, and
the strawberries grew on the left, but it was

a very little way on the left after all.

Besides, he need only walk a few yards and

then sit down, and when he was tired of

gathering and eating, he could easily come
back and go on to the right. It seemed
such a little bit out of his way that it really
could not signify much, and he had always
been told to be civil to people. Here was