Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes | Page 2

pink
wrapper, and drink tea out of a pink cup, and eat pink wintergreen
candy!"
Snubby Nose liked the idea of wintergreen candy. He hugged Doctor
Cotton-Tail and stopped crying at once.
Susan got a pink wrapper and got a pink china cup for his tea. Grandpa
Grumbles felt in his overcoat pocket and took out sixteen pieces of
Wintergreen candy. It was pink wintergreen candy of course!
Susan said to Doctor Cotton-Tail, "How did you happen to come out in
this big snowstorm?"
Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I had a call to make, I was going to visit--"
Just then Susan began to sneeze. She sneezed so hard she nearly
sneezed her head off!
Doctor Cotton-Tail said,
"Susan that is quite absurd, Such sneezing I have never heard."
Susan said by and by, "I beg your pardon, what were you saying when I
started to sneeze?"
Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I had a call, I was going to visit--"

At this very minute Snubby Nose set up a shout, for dear Bunny
Cotton-Tail leaned too near the candle and burned one of his whiskers!
Then Grandpa Grumbles shook his green cotton umbrella fiercely and
said,
"Such a noise I never heard, I cannot hear a single word."
[Illustration: "GRANDPA GRUMBLES HAD NOT SEEN DR.
COTTON-TAIL FOR TWO HUNDRED AND SIX YEARS"]
Grandpa Grumbles had been sitting very still in a corner and Doctor
Cotton-Tail had not seen him up to this minute. He got up and shook
hands with him and said, "How do you do, sir, How do you do, sir!"
Grandpa Grumbles was pleased as pleased could be. He had not seen
Doctor Cotton-Tail for two hundred and six years! He cried out, "How
do you do, sir! How do you do, sir!"
All this time Snubby Nose sat up in his pink wrapper drinking tea out
of a pink cup and eating pink wintergreen candy. By and by Susan said,
"Doctor Cotton-Tail you were going to tell us where you were going to
call when you came here!"
Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I was on my way to call on little Tippy
Toes!"
"My fur and whiskers," said Bunny, "I never had a grandchild named
Tippy Toes!"
"Bless my buttons," said Susan, "What a cute little name."
Then Grandpa Grumbles got up waving his green cotton umbrella and
shouted,
"Though the stormy north wind blows, I'll go with you to Tippy Toes."
Then he and Doctor Cotton-Tail made a low bow and went out into the
snowstorm.

Doctor Cotton-Tail called back, "Don't forget to eat wintergreen
candy."
By this time Bunny and Susan and Snubby Nose were tired and sleepy,
and they all went to bed. Bunny began to snore and Susan began to
snore, but Snubby Nose was still wide awake.
What do you suppose Snubby Nose did? You can give three guesses
and you will not guess what he did!
He got out of bed and lit a candle. He said, "I believe I am the ugliest
little Bunny with the ugliest little nose of any Bunny alive."
He began to dance before the mirror. He danced this way and that way
before the mirror. He danced very prettily on the tips of his toes. Then
he made a low bow and said,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Tippy Toes."
Then Snubby Nose went back to bed. He said, "To-morrow I will go
and find Tippy Toes."

CHAPTER II
Where do you suppose Tippy Toes was, and what do you suppose he
was doing? He woke up in his warm little bed at home and said, "Oh,
Ma! Oh, Pa! I want to go and visit Bunny and Susan Cotton-Tail."
Mother Cotton-Tail laughed and said, "You have read about Bunny
Cotton-Tail burning his paw by candle-light."
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "You have read about Susan's cookies!"
Tippy Toes said, "Please, may I go and visit Bunny and Susan?"
Tippy Toes was a homely little Bunny. He had a very ugly little nose,
but he was polite. He always said, "Thank you," and, "If you please."

Mother Cotton-Tail said, "You may go and pay a visit to Bunny and
Susan. Go and pack your traveling bag at once."
Tippy Toes was so pleased he hugged Mother Cotton-Tail and said,
"Thank you, Mother Cotton-Tail, I will go and pack my traveling bag."
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "I will go with you to the turn of the road."
Soon they started merrily down the road and Mother Cotton-Tail called,
"Good-bye, good-bye."
They had only gone a few steps when Mother Cotton-Tail called,
"Come back, come back, you have forgotten your umbrella. What if it
should rain?"
Tippy Toes went dancing merrily back and Papa Cotton-Tail waited for
him. They started on again and this time Mother Cotton-Tail called,
"Come back,