“I won’t eat carrots, though you think it funny;

I am a peculiar Runaway Bunny.”

Then he waved his paw toward the table of tempting things.

And he shouted:

“I won’t eat at all, though you think it funny;

I am a peculiar Runaway Bunny.”

Then he gave one bound and was out of the den before Foxy-Lox could wink an eyelash.

His talkative little ticking Watch made this remark:

“We don’t care how hard the climb;

Friend Bunny, you got out just in time!”