The Runaway Bunny bowed politely and said:
“I can’t eat bones, though you think it funny;
I am a peculiar Runaway Bunny.”
“What are you running away for?” asked Rough Coat.
But the little fellow was in too much of a hurry to stop to answer him. He could not forget how hungry he was.
He sang:
“The Runaway Bunny is sad, you see,
For he is hungry as he can be.”
A wise old owl in the tree overhead, who said his name was Who-Who, offered the Rabbit a juicy bat.
But the Runaway Bunny replied: