“To be late to school I’ll not form the habit;
I was a careless, forgetful Rabbit.”
Healthy Bunny said, “I am to blame too, I suppose. I should have run to the store to get your laundry soap long before time for the store to close.”
Both the Bunnies begged Aunt Etiquette to tell a story and she said, “I will read you a story from the book I got at the library yesterday. So she began to read “An On-Time Tale.”
“Once upon a time Tardy Ted talked to his father one evening, and his father remarked,
“You are late to breakfast, and supper and dinner;
I know you don’t mean to be a great sinner;
You are willing to learn if you know the way;
To what else were you late to-day?”
Tardy Ted loved to talk to his father.