"Boots, boots, I would be
A thousand miles across the sea."
And, whisk! away he went and was lost to sight before Uncle John Hare could get out his spyglass.
"Well, well," laughed the wonderful shoemaker, coming to the door and shading his eyes with his hand, "it didn't take him long to walk away. Ha! ha! My boots are better than airships." I guess he thought he had done a good day's work, and maybe he had, for two diamonds and three rubies are a fair price for one boot, although it may have a stride of a thousand leagues, more or less.
And just you wait until you hear what happens in the next story.
FIREFLY LANTERNS
Twinkle, twinkle, firefly,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Well, it was mighty lucky that this firefly had her tiny lantern along with her, for I don't know how the two little rabbits would have reached home if she hadn't lighted the way for them, for the Bunnymobile lantern had gone out, you see.
"We must buy some new ones," said the old gentleman bunny. "We may be arrested any night, and that would be most unpleasant." So the next morning he and Little Jack Rabbit started off for Bunnyville and by and by, after a while, they crossed the bridge that spanned Rabbit River, which wasn't really much wider than a little brook, and stopped before a hardware store.
"What kind of lanterns have you?" asked Uncle John Hare of the fat Turkey Gobble who kept the store.