Keep your lips closed, if you please,
Don’t make noises—do not tease.
This lesson you can learn quite soon,
Drink soup from the side of the spoon;
To fold your napkin you are able,
And say “Excuse me from the table.”
Pretty Bunny’s head went nid-nid, nodding, and she was soon fast asleep, but Healthy Bunny heard the “patter, patter, patter,” of little feet upon the stairs. He wondered if it could be Bunny Brag coming with the suit case.
He ran out in the hall and saw no one, so he said “I must have fallen asleep and been dreaming after all. I wish I could see the Looking-Glass Bunny, but I suppose he broke the mirror and ran away.”
Healthy Bunny crept down into the hall and danced before the mirror and there he saw the Looking-Glass Bunny dancing merrily. He asked the Looking-Glass Bunny who went “pitter, patter,” on the stairs, but the Looking-Glass Bunny only nodded and smiled and danced, and did not answer a word for sixteen minutes, then he whispered,
“I could tell you, if I choose,