"I am if I can reach. Maybe I can't. Anyhow, a zebra ought to be painted on both sides. Not like we're going to do our dog Splash; only on one side, to make a pretend blue-striped tiger of him."
Sue seemed to be thinking of something.
"Doesn't he look nice?" asked Bunny of his sister. "Isn't he going to be a fine zebra?"
He stood back from the box-stall where the calf was kept, so Sue could see how the little animal looked.
"Doesn't he look pretty, Sue? Just like a circus zebra, only of course they're not green. But isn't he nice?"
"Yes," said Sue, "he is pretty."
The calf, after jumping around some when Bunny first put the paint on, was now standing very still, as though he liked it. Of course the calf did not know that the paint would not wear off for a long time. Then, too, the cow mother had put her head over from the next stall, where she was tied, and she was rubbing her big red tongue on the calf's head. The calf liked its cow mother to rub it this way, and maybe that is why the little calf stood still.
"It's going to look real nice, Bunny," said Sue, as she looked at the green stripes Bunny had put on. "I—I guess I'll let you put blue stripes on my half of Splash, too. Then he'll look all over like a tiger; won't he, Bunny?"
"Sure. I'm glad you'll let me, Sue. 'Cause a dog, only half striped, would look funny. Now I'll see if I can put some stripes on the other side of the calf."
Bunny tried to reach the side of the little animal he had not yet painted, but he could not do it from where he stood.