"What's this?" cried the Farmer's Boy, kicking over the cabbages and turnips that the poor little rabbit had so carefully placed in front of the store.
Down fell the sign from the nicely painted post. Crack! it went under the heel of the Farmer Boy's shoe.
"Why didn't you catch 'em, Sic'em?" he asked crossly. Then he turned away and went whistling down the path.
"I don't feel much like whistling," said Little Jack Rabbit, "my store has all gone to smithereens!"
But Mrs. Rabbit didn't say anything. I think she was even more disappointed than her little bunny boy.
BILLY BREEZE
"Billy Breeze, Billy Breeze!
Come and help me, if you please.
If you'll only shake the tree,
There'll be lots of nuts for me."
This is what Chippy Chipmunk sang one morning when he found there were no more nuts on the ground.
Of course, he had a lot already stored away, but he didn't want to use them now. No, indeed; not until the cold weather came. Pretty soon he commenced to sing again: