"Ho, ho!" laughed Mr. Green Frog. "I frightened you that time."
"I frightened you, too," said Billy. "That was why you jumped into the water."
"Well," said Mr. Green Frog, "you almost hopped on my back.
"Of course I was frightened. I jumped into the water without looking to see what was the matter."
"Come, come," said Bunny. "We must find that clover patch. I am as hungry as a bear."
So the three little rabbits hopped off across the meadow.
They could not hop so near the brook now because the ground was soft and wet.
And the rabbits did not like to wet their feet.
They hopped along, and at last Bunny called out, "Here it is. Here it is."
Billy and Bobtail hopped up close to Bunny.