No telling, though, what our guests will say.”

At this very minute the Runaway Bunny read in the newspaper about himself.

He read, “‘Bunny lost.’ That must be I.”

He twitched his long ears to and fro and turned to look back at his little stubby tail.

He did not want to go back and visit his grandparents yet. So he started on, saying:

“I won’t stay still for a purse of money,

I am such a funny Runaway Bunny!”

Chapter V
THE ANIMALS’ FOURTH OF JULY

“We’ll have fun and frolic by and by,