Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes | Page 2

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, come back, you have forgotten your overshoes. What if there should be a thunder storm?"
So Tippy Toes went dancing merrily back and Papa Cotton-Tail waited for him again. When they started the third time Tippy Toes said, "We have nothing to go back for this time," but the wind whistled in his ears.
Mother Cotton-Tail called again, "Come back, come back, Tippy Toes, you have forgotten your red silk pocket handkerchief."
This time Papa Cotton-Tail went back with Tippy Toes and he said, "Dear Mother Cotton-Tail, do put on your thinking-cap and see if we have forgotten anything else, or we shall never get off."
Then they looked high and low, but they could not find Mother Cotton-Tail's thinking-cap!
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "Never mind, I will put on my thinking-cap instead." So he put on