"Don't you know?" answered Henny Penny. "Why, he's the little rabbit who colors the Easter Eggs!"
"What!" cried a big fat goose.
"This is Little Jack Rabbit," said Cocky Doodle.
"Pleased to meet you," said Goosey Lucy. "Do you paint goose eggs, too?" But before the little bunny could say yes or no, the Kind Farmer himself came out of the house.
"Why, look who's here," he said with a smile. And such a kind smile that Little Jack Rabbit wasn't the least bit afraid.
"He saw the hired boy steal the eggs from my nest in the corner of the Old Rail Fence," cried Henny Penny.
"Ha, ha!" laughed the Kind Farmer. "So that's where you've been laying your eggs, is it, Miss Henny Penny?"
"Cock-a-doodle-do,
She only laid a few.
But after this she'll lay the rest
Within the little wooden nest
You hung upon the Henhouse wall,
And tell you with her cackle-call,"
said the little rooster, for Henny Penny was too ashamed to speak.
Then the Weathercock whirled around on his big toe and, pointing at the little hen, shouted through his tin megaphone: