Should have gone to school to-day.
He cried so hard he could not see,
And went the other way!
CHAPTER VI
When Susan’s mother saw Susan, she laughed and she cried. Then she put Susan to bed, and there the poor little rabbit stayed for a week, and then it was time for school to begin.
When Bunny’s mother saw him, she switched him with a little maple switch, and sat him up in the corner until he told the whole story.
Bunny ran away so much, you see, that his mother was quite used to it, while Susan was a good rabbit and had never before run away from home.
The week passed, and then Bunny’s mother said Bunny must go to school. For rabbits have to go to school if they want to learn anything, of course!
So she put up a nice little lunch for Bunny, and gave his coat an extra brush. She brushed him so hard that he cried a little, and went down the road with his dinner pail on his arm, brushing the tears away with his sore paw!
Bunny never did like to go to school very well, so when he stopped crying, and found that he had taken the wrong road and was going into the woods, he was not sorry at all.