So they waited on the One Way Steps. It was nearly noon when Muffs came out of the workshop. She was walking along the Way of Peril, holding the paper in one hand and a post card in the other and smiling to herself.
PUT THE EDGE OF THE CARD HERE
AND HERE
NOW PUT YOUR NOZE DOWN
ON THE OTHER EDGE
AND LOOK!
“Wait a minute!” called Mary. “Can’t we see it too?”
Muffs turned around in surprise and held out the paper. “Look!” she cried. “I’ve made him come back again. I’ve made Bunny Bright Eyes go into his little house!”
On the paper was the picture she had drawn, first the house and then a rabbit that looked for all the world like Bunny Bright Eyes.
“But he isn’t in the house,” Mary objected.
“Now he is,” said Muffs and, placing the edge of the post card between the rabbit and the house, she bent closer and looked. Tommy looked too. At first the rabbit didn’t go all the way in, but when he looked a little closer, sure enough, there he was inside his own little house. He sat there behind the wire screen until Tommy took the card away.
“It’s magic,” said Mary. She helped Muffs print directions so that other people could work the magic too.