We should reply, if you please.”
Sure enough, at the end of Aunt Etiquette’s letter they found the letters, “R. S. V. P.”
While these letters were usually put only on a formal invitation to a party, Aunt Etiquette had used them just for fun to see if Pretty Bunny would know that they stood for French words meaning, “Reply, if you please.”
Now, who was going to write the letter in reply?
Said Old Father Bun, “Don’t you think we’d better
Sit right down to answer this kind letter?”
Then he went off in his cozy corner to smoke.
Said Old Mother Bun, “It makes me sigh,
Every letter really needs a reply.”