But I did not speak, because at that time I didn't know what a mouth was for.

I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone.
"`This fellow will scare the crows fast enough,' said the farmer.

`He looks just like a man.' "`Why, he is a man,' said the other, and I quite agreed with him.

The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.

He and his friend soon after walked away and left me alone.
"I did not like to be deserted this way.