Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes | Page 3

his red silk thinking-cap and said, "Oh, I know what we have forgotten; we have forgotten to send Bunny and Susan a present!"
"To be sure," said Mother Cotton-Tail, "Now what shall the present be?"
Little Tippy Toes did not get started on his journey that day, for it took four days and fourteen hours for them to decide what to send Bunny and Susan. All this time Tippy Toes was as merry as you please. He danced about on the tips of his toes and sang,
"A present, a present, if all things go well, What shall be the present? No one can tell."
Suddenly, at breakfast next morning Mother Cotton-Tail said, "I will go to town and buy Bunny and Susan a big parlor lamp."
"A lamp with a pink shade," said Tippy Toes.
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "A lamp with a tall chimney."
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "I will buy a lamp with a pink shade and a tall chimney for Bunny, because he burns his paw in the candle."
Then Tippy Toes danced this way, and he danced that way, and said, "Oh, Ma, may I go with you to town to help buy the lamp?"
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Papa Cotton-Tail has to go to work. If I go to town and you go, too, who will tend the fire? Who will wash the dishes?"
Tippy Toes wanted to go to town, but he was a good little Bunny, so he said,
"Who will tend the fire? Whom do you suppose? Who will wash the dishes? Little Tippy Toes."
So Mother Cotton-Tail put on her best sunbonnet and took her purse and shopping basket with her, and went off with Papa Cotton-Tail calling, "Good-bye, I will be home to supper at five o'clock sharp."
Then Tippy Toes danced a little fairylike dance before the mirror and sang,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose."
Tippy Toes said, "I have danced that dance before, and I sing that song very often, but the mirror always gives me the same answer. Who is Snubby Nose? I wonder if he has a real ugly little nose like I have?"
Then Tippy Toes made up the fire and washed the dishes and began to get things ready to cook for supper. He said, "I do wish I could go and find Snubby Nose; I wonder if Bunny and Susan can tell me about him."
[Illustration: "TIPPY TOES WASHED THE DISHES"]
Tippy Toes sat down in front of the clock and began to count the hours until Mother Cotton-Tail would come home. He fell asleep and dreamed that he saw a little Bunny exactly like himself stuck fast in a snowdrift. When he woke up it was five o'clock and Papa Cotton-Tail had just come home.
They got supper and waited, and waited, for Mother Cotton-Tail. At exactly six o'clock she came in. She was an hour late.
She came on the stroke of the clock. She said, "I have been shopping all day."
Mother Cotton-Tail took a wonderful lamp from her basket. It had a pink shade and a tall chimney.
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "If you send the lamp to Bunny I must send something to Susan. I will go to town to-morrow and get Susan a pair of spectacles."
Tippy Toes said, "Oh Pa, may I go with you to town to-morrow?"
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "Who will roll out the cookies for Mother Cotton-Tail? Who will run her little errands all day?"
Then Tippy Toes danced this way, and he danced that way, and sang,
"Who will do errands? Whom do you suppose? Who will roll cookies? Little Tippy Toes."
So, they had a merry time at supper that evening and lighted the new lamp, and Papa Cotton-Tail read fairy tales.
Tippy Toes did not tell what the mirror had answered him. He kept that as a secret. He said to himself, "I do wonder who Snubby Nose is!"

CHAPTER III
Next day Tippy Toes woke up early and cried out, "Oh, Mother Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up! Oh, Papa Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up!"
Sure enough it was time for Bunnies to wake up because it was sunrise.
Tippy Toes helped to get breakfast. He went to the well to draw water. He began to sing a little fairy song,
"Ding, dong bell, Pussy's in the well."
"Poor Pussy, I wonder if she is still in the well," he said. He peeped down to look into the well.
Papa Cotton-Tail called, "Hurry, hurry, it is time for breakfast."
Then Tippy Toes drew a bucket full of water and said, "Is poor Pussy still in the well?"
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "If you ever read your Mother Goose you would know she is not in the well."
"Who pulled her out?" asked Tippy Toes.
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Hush, be still, you ask too many questions!"
Tippy Toes wondered all day who pulled poor Pussy out. He danced this way, and he danced that way,