The Circus Bunny said:

“We’re very near a garden plot,

We shall find a good meal, like as not.”

“They had a fine meal”

They went hippety-hop until they came to the garden. Here they ate the tops of some early spring flowers and some bits of tender lettuce. They had a fine meal before they were through with it. The Circus Bunny said:

“Let’s live in the garden a night and a day.

There’s plenty of lettuce; come, what do you say?”

But the Runaway Bunny was off with a hop,