- [first lines]
- Narrator: One cold winter's night, long, long ago, there lived a poor old shoemaker and his wife. Poor old cobbler had so many shoe orders to fill that he overworked, and became very sick. All they had left to eat was one crust of bread...
- [last lines]
- Narrator: The old shoemaker was a bit puzzled, and said...
- Cobbler: Mama - I wonder if them little birds had something to do with this?
- Birds: [shrugging] ... Could be...