Now, in case the cuckoo clock doesn’t fall down off the wall and spatter the rice pudding all over the parlor carpet, I’ll tell you in the story after this one about Bully and Sammie Littletail.
STORY XXVIII
BULLY AND SAMMIE LITTLETAIL
One day when the nice young lady robin school teacher, about whom I told you last night, called the roll of her class, to see if all the animal children were there, Samuel Littletail, the rabbit boy, didn’t answer.
“Why, I wonder where Sammie can be?” asked the teacher. “Has anyone seen him this morning?”
They all shook their heads, and Bully No-Tail, the frog boy, answered:
“If you please, teacher, perhaps his sister, Susie, knows.”
“Oh, of course! Why didn’t I think to ask her?” said the teacher. So she looked over on the girls’ side of the room, but, would you believe it? Susie, the rabbit girl, wasn’t there either.