"My fur and whiskers, the room is all clean!" Bunny Cotton-Tail cried.
Susan Cotton-Tail cried, "Bless my buttons, everything is in order."
Grandpa Grumbles said,
"There is a mystery in the air,
There is something strange, I do declare."
Tippy Toes cried, "Good night Bunny and Susan, good night dear Grandpa Grumbles," and he danced this way, and danced that way, and he danced himself right up to bed.
"How polite he is," said Bunny Cotton-Tail. Susan said, "He does not seem to mind when we speak of noses!"
Grandpa Grumbles said, "He does not cry any more."
They all sat by the fire warming their paws. Grandpa Grumbles was thinking. At last he said to Bunny and Susan, "One day I heard Snubby Nose talking as he stood before a mirror, and he said,"
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows."
The mirror answered, "Tippy Toes."
Now this Little Cotton-Tail dances before the mirror, and he says,