The Easter Bunny
Mother Tiny-Tail sat in her little red plush rocking chair rocking to and fro singing:
“Alas! alack! I am old and gray,
And have no eggs for Easter Day.”
He Went to the Little Brown Hen Who Lives in the Lane
Just then a Funny Bunny came by with a hop, and a skip, and a bound and said, “Oh, Mother Tiny-Tail, no eggs for Easter, no eggs for the Tiny-Tails? That will never do!” So saying, he borrowed Mother Tiny-Tail’s market basket, and went hippety-hop to the Little Brown Hen who lives in the lane, saying:
“Please give me eggs now that I ask it,
Enough to fill my market basket.”
The Little Brown Hen said: