A Grasshopper’s Trip to the City. 121

and coat and legs as well as he could with a clean
leaf that grew near.

He had hopped quite a distance from his home
by this time, and feeling tired, looked about for a
nap-place. He soon found it—a flat stone on
which the sun had been shining all the morning,
making it warm and comfortable. He lay down
in the very middle of it, and was soon fast asleep.

Now under this stone there was a hole, and in
it lived a black snake. He, too, was fond of
sleeping and had his own favorite nap-place—on
the very same warm flat stone on which the Grass-
hopper was lying.

The Snake came from his hole, looked about,
and said: “I think I will take a nap.” So he
crawled up on the stone (not noticing the Grass-
hopper) and curled himself round and round and
round and went to sleep. Not a very comfortable
position for a nap, but then he was only a snake,
and, I daresay, had no kind mother to tell him to
“lie straight.”

Pretty soon the Grasshopper woke up, and you
never saw such a surprised Grasshopper as this