Pretty Bunny hopped along and said to herself, “I feel rather strange for this will be my first day in the new school. I wonder if Bunny Brag may possibly come to this school.”
Bunny Brag did not appear at school, and Pretty Bunny did not meet him for days and days.
Pretty Bunny looked around when she came to the door of the school; Shadow Bunny had disappeared.
Pretty Bunny hesitated a minute, but the Bunnies in Miss Manner’s school were very polite. They told Pretty Bunny where to hang her wraps and her dinner-pail, and made her feel quite at home. As it was not yet time for school to begin, the Bunnies went and cleaned the blackboard and erasers and hung up all the erasers neatly on the hooks. They said,
“We help the teacher every day
In our work in every way.”
The teacher came in with a pleasant “Good Morning.”
She read a story that day that every one liked. The story was called, “Little Rag-Tag.”
“Once upon a time, Little Rag-Tag came to school. She had on a ragged dress and the buttons were off her shoes.