Grandpa Grumbles replied, "Why, Snubby Nose, you have a poor memory if you have forgotten about the red mittens. Don't you remember that Santa Claus gave Bushy-Tail a pair of magic mittens?"
Tippy Toes said, politely, "Please tell me about it."
Grandpa Grumbles said, "Bushy-Tail put on the red magic mittens and they pinched his paws."
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Tippy Toes, "How long did he have to wear those mittens?" Grandpa Grumbles answered,
"Really, now, I cannot say,
But I guess it was a year and a day."
Then Tippy Toes laughed so hard that he doubled right up in a little ball and rolled over and over.
"Come, come," said Grandpa Grumbles, "You had better go back to see
Bunny and Susan, they may think Bushy-Tail has eaten you up."
So they traveled back together to see Bunny and Susan. When they came to the house there was soot on everything. There was soot on the carpet and furniture and pictures. There was soot on the new lamp, and on Susan's spectacles.
Grandpa Grumbles shouted,
"You are careless folks, I do declare,
To let the soot blow everywhere."