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137 For while they all were travelling home,

Cried Betty, "Tell us Johnny, do,

"Where all this long night you have been,

"What you have heard, what you have seen,

"And Johnny, mind you tell us true."

Now Johnny all night long had heard

The owls in tuneful concert strive;

No doubt too he the moon had seen;

For in the moonlight he had been

From eight o'clock till five.

And thus to Betty's question, he,

Made answer, like a traveller bold,

(His very words I give to you,)

"The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo,

"And the sun did shine so cold."

—Thus answered Johnny in his glory,

And that was all his travel's story.