“Well, no sooner had the bunny giant said these marvelous words than he changed into a very nice-looking rabbit man, with a new coat and hat, well fitting trousers and tan shoes, and where his ugly long tooth had once been, now appeared a good cabbage leaf cigar.
“‘Now see what I’ve done for you,’ cried the fairy bunny queen.
“‘I can’t,’ answered the rabbit giant. ‘My little cracked looking-glass is home in the bungalow.’
“‘Well, never mind,’ replied the fairy queen bunny lady rabbit, ‘you may wait till you go home. But before you leave I must tell you why I’ve made you into such a nice-looking gentleman rabbit bunny.’
“‘Do tell me,’ said the rabbit giant, although now, of course, he was a giant no more,—just a nice large-sized bunny rabbit man.
“‘I want you to surprise the friendly fly and the little black cricket. You’ve been so very kind to them that they probably think you’re very nice-looking. But just wait till they see you now.’
“‘Oh, I’m so glad,’ said the rabbitman, ‘I’ll hop right home, but on my way I’ll pick some flowers and a lollypop off the lollypop tree. My little friends will like them,’ and away went the rabbitman, happy to think that he could please a fly and a cricket.”
“That’s a very nice story,” said Little Jack Rabbit. “But please keep on till the rabbitman gets home to his bungalow. I want to hear what the fly and the cricket say when they see him. They will be so surprised that he isn’t a ragged giant rabbitman any more.”
“To be sure,” said the Big Brown Bear. “Now, let me see. I hope my memory doesn’t fail me right here. It’s behaved very well so far. Oh, yes, now I know what happened as soon as the rabbitman walked into his big dark bungalow.
“‘Who’s that?’ cried the little cricket.