"Aunt Polly said to send for her again if everything wasn't all right," she said to Mr. Rabbit. "So you'd better go and tell her to come over at once."
When that famous doctor, Aunt Polly Woodchuck, reached Mrs. Rabbit's house, she said:
"Is Jimmy worse? He ought to be almost well by this time; for mumps don't last long, as a rule."
"It isn't Jimmy," Mrs. Rabbit told her. "It's the hot-water bottle! I find that it's full of holes; and I can't think how they came there."
Aunt Polly put on another pair of spectacles.
"Let me see it!" she said. "Aha!" she exclaimed, as she looked at the hot-water[p. 110] bottle closely. "I thought so!" she said.