The strange Bunny asked Pretty Bunny if she had noticed this after they had left the store, and remarked,
“To be well-mannered I hope you’ll try;
Don’t handle things unless you buy.”
Pretty Bunny said, “Let me go home, please let me go home; you have made a mistake, I am not your grandchild at all, I am visiting Aunt Etiquette.”
The strange Bunny went hurrying on as though nothing had been said. They went into a house at last and the door latched behind them.
The strange Bunny looked at Pretty Bunny very hard and said,
“I think perhaps I have been tricked
But it is not your business to contradict.”
She went on to say we should be very careful about disputing with our elders; even if we feel sure we are right, we should say politely, “I think it was this way.”
Pretty Bunny sat down and cried.