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there is soot all over the room." Tippy
Toes danced on this foot, and danced on that foot, and said,

"Let me go up the chimney because, I think it may be Santa Claus."
Then Bunny and Susan laughed, but soon Bunny Cotton-Tail coughed,
and Susan sneezed, so Tippy Toes knew something must be done at
once. He ran outdoors and looked up at the chimney.
There was Bushy-Tail, the sly old Fox acting as a chimney-sweep. He
was sweeping the chimney with his long, beautiful tail.
[Illustration: "HE WAS SWEEPING THE CHIMNEY WITH HIS
LONG, BEAUTIFUL TAIL"]
Tippy Toes cried, "Please come down and I will show you how to
dance." Bushy-Tail was surprised you may be sure. He thought it was
Snubby Nose, and Snubby Nose never said, "Please."
He jumped off the roof with a bound and howled, "Oh, ho! So you will
show me how to dance, will you?"
Then Bushy-Tail chased Tippy Toes away and away and away in the
woods.
Tippy Toes said to himself,
"I'm in a corner without a doubt, But if I keep cheerful I will get out."
At that very minute they met old Grandpa Grumbles. He said,
"It is getting cold I've heard it said, Bushy-Tail where are your mittens,
red?"
_Then the most surprising thing happened!_
Bushy-Tail gave a howl and ran away as fast as his legs could carry
him.
"What does it all mean?" asked Tippy Toes.
Grandpa Grumbles replied, "Why, Snubby Nose, you have a poor

memory if you have forgotten about the red mittens. Don't you
remember that Santa Claus gave Bushy-Tail a pair of magic mittens?"
Tippy Toes said, politely, "Please tell me about it."
Grandpa Grumbles said, "Bushy-Tail put on the red magic mittens and
they pinched his paws."
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Tippy Toes, "How long did he have to wear those
mittens?" Grandpa Grumbles answered,
"Really, now, I cannot say, But I guess it was a year and a day."
Then Tippy Toes laughed so hard that he doubled right up in a little
ball and rolled over and over.
"Come, come," said Grandpa Grumbles, "You had better go back to see
Bunny and Susan, they may think Bushy-Tail has eaten you up."
So they traveled back together to see Bunny and Susan. When they
came to the house there was soot on everything. There was soot on the
carpet and furniture and pictures. There was soot on the new lamp, and
on Susan's spectacles.
Grandpa Grumbles shouted,
"You are careless folks, I do declare, To let the soot blow everywhere."
Bunny Cotton-Tail coughed, and Susan sneezed, and Grandpa
Grumbles said,
"Into the kitchen, one, seven, three, You are as careless as can be."
He made Bunny and Susan go into the kitchen; then he said to Tippy
Toes,
"Come, get a broom and an apron or two, We'll clean this room, that's
what we'll do."

Soon Grandpa Grumbles and Tippy Toes had everything out of the
room. It did not take long to make it as clean as a pin.
Grandpa Grumbles looked hard at Tippy Toes.
"How does your nose feel?" he asked. "Come, sir, why don't you cry
any more?"
Tippy Toes danced this way, and danced that way, and sang to the big
mirror that hung on the wall,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Snubby
Nose."

CHAPTER V
"My fur and whiskers, the room is all clean!" Bunny Cotton-Tail cried.
Susan Cotton-Tail cried, "Bless my buttons, everything is in order."
Grandpa Grumbles said,
"There is a mystery in the air, There is something strange, I do
declare."
Tippy Toes cried, "Good night Bunny and Susan, good night dear
Grandpa Grumbles," and he danced this way, and danced that way, and
he danced himself right up to bed.
"How polite he is," said Bunny Cotton-Tail. Susan said, "He does not
seem to mind when we speak of noses!"
Grandpa Grumbles said, "He does not cry any more."
They all sat by the fire warming their paws. Grandpa Grumbles was
thinking. At last he said to Bunny and Susan, "One day I heard Snubby
Nose talking as he stood before a mirror, and he said,"

"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Tippy Toes."
Now this Little Cotton-Tail dances before the mirror, and he says,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answers, "Snubby
Nose."
"Snubby Nose, Tippy Toes," repeated Bunny and Susan over and over
as they warmed their paws by the fire.
By and by Grandpa Grumbles said, talking very fast, "Suppose there
were two little Cotton-Tails, one named Snubby Nose, and one named
Tippy Toes, suppose--just suppose they looked as much alike as two
peas."
Bunny Cotton-Tail said, "My fur and whiskers, it seems like a fairy tale,
but Snubby Nose