"Sink or swim, just as you please,
For I have no desire to tease."
He left poor Bushy-Tail to swim to shore.
When Grandpa Grumbles got home he saw smoke coming out of his chimney.
He grumbled,
"It seems to me quite like a bore,
To have to enter by the door."
He was so used to sailing down the chimney!
The door opened for him and there stood Bunny and Susan. Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes danced up to him and told him how Bushy-Tail had tried to get in.
Grandpa Grumbles shook his green umbrella fiercely and said,
"He will not come this way again,
Either in sunshine or in rain."
Then Bunny and Susan and Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes begged Grandpa Grumbles to tell what had become of Bushy-Tail, but Grandpa Grumbles would only say,
"I am so deaf 'tis hard to hear,
Come, speak a little louder, dear."