a sailor hat with a blue ribbon

ONE day the wind blew through the town, and 
oh, how merry it was! It whistled down the 
chimneys, and scampered round the corners, 
and sang in the tree tops. " Come and dance, come 
and dance, come and dance with me," that is what it 
seemed to say. 

And what could keep from dancing to such a merry 
tune? The clothes danced on the clothes-line, the 
leaves danced on the branches of the trees, a bit of 
paper danced about the street, and a little boy's hat 
danced off of his head and down the sidewalk as fast 
as it could go. 

It was a sailor hat with a blue ribbon around it; 
and the ends of the ribbons flew out behind like little 
blue flags.