1.Freddie saw some fine ride cherries Hanging on a cherry tree,And he said,“You pretty cherries,Will you not come down to me?”
2.“Thank you kindly,”said a cherry,“We would rather stay up here;If we should go down this morning,You would eat us up,I fear.”
3.One,the finest of the cherries,Dangled from a slender twig.
“You are beautiful,”said Freddie,“Red and ripe,and oh,how big!”
4.“Catch me,”said the cherry,“catch me,Little master,if you can.”
“I would catch you soon,”said Freddie,“If I were a grown-up man.”
5.Freddie jumped and tried to catch it,Standing high upon his toes;But the cherry danced about him,Laughed,and tickled Freddie’s nose.
6.“Never mind,”said little Freddie,“I shall eat you yet all right;”
But a blackbird whistled boldly,“I shall eat them all to-night.”