Little Bunny Cotton-Tail
Should not try to roam
In Farmer Jones’s cabbage-patch;
He ought to stay at home.
CHAPTER IV
Next day, Bunny went over to Susan’s house and found Susan’s mother crying, and what do you suppose had happened? Why, Susan Cotton-Tail had not come home, and her mother was afraid she might be lost.
When Bunny heard the news, he cried into a little red handkerchief that he had wrapped around his sore paw, and he said he wished to die if Susan Cotton-Tail could not be found!
Now Bunny knew that old Farmer Jones hated the sight of even his little stubby tail, so he thought the quickest way for him to die would be to run over into the farmer’s garden.
He told Susan’s mother good-by, waved his sore paw feebly, and set out for the garden. He thought that if he must die he would eat some cabbage first, and he was nibbling away when he heard some one whisper his name very softly.
At first he thought it was Marie, Farmer Jones’s little girl, so he curled right up close beside a cabbage, and did not say a word. He peeped around the cabbage, and he could see Farmer Jones’s blue shirt, and once in a while he could hear him whistle.