Where’s my friend, the Bed-Room Bunny?”
Aunt Etiquette smiled and said quite as though she had not heard this question,
“Pretty Bunny, are you able
To keep your elbows off the table?”
Pretty Bunny blushed rosy red, unfolded her napkin and sat very straight. When helped to coffee, cakes and honey, she began to eat rather noisily and Aunt Etiquette said,
“Bunnies, as well as girls and boys,
Can eat their meals with little noise.”
Pretty Bunny said, “How I do love to learn lessons by saying jingles over and over, for the funny little rhymes I can’t forget, and they make me remember useful things.”
Just then a crash was heard and Pretty Bunny was so excited she left the table without stopping to say, “Excuse me.”
She ran up stairs and found the mirror in her room had fallen and broken into many pieces. She looked all about for the Looking-Glass Bunny but caught only a glimpse of her long ears, and though she called him again and again she received no answer.