And get me a pencil as a rabbit should!”
He put his dinner pail down by a log and went hurrying home to get a lead pencil. Soon he came back hippety-hop with his pencil in his overalls pocket.
He stopped to look for his dinner pail. It was gone!
He shouted to Pit-A-Pat, who had gone on ahead:
“To get to school I will not fail,
But where, oh where is my dinner pail?”
Pit-A-Pat said she knew nothing about the lost dinner pail.
Soon the Runaway Bunny caught up with Rough Coat and said:
“It makes me shake my stubby tail
To think I lost my dinner pail.”