When Mrs. Rabbit heard that she was terribly upset.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" she cried. "Whatever shall I do?"
"The usual thing," Jasper Jay told her, "is to offer a reward."
"Is that so?" said Mrs. Rabbit. "I've never done anything like that. Will you help me?"
"Why, certainly!" said Jasper. And he set to work and painted a big sign, which looked like this:
LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN!
A boy in a checkered suit, with a short
tail and long ears. He answers to
the name of Jimmy Rabbit. A reward
will be paid for his return, and no
questions asked.
Mrs. Rabbit,
Near the Big Pine Tree.
"There!" said Jasper Jay, proudly. "That ought to fetch him, if anything will." And he and Mrs. Rabbit took the sign down to the road and hung it on a fence-post.
"Why do you say 'No questions asked'?" she inquired.
"That's the way it's always done," said Jasper.