CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
MORE COTTON TAIL STORIES
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
ILLUSTRATIONS
"'BRING THE CAMPHOR! BRING THE SMELLING SALTS!'"
"GRANDPA GRUMBLES HAD NOT SEEN DR. COTTONTAIL FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS"
"TIPPY TOES WASHED THE DISHES"
"'MY NAME IS NOT SNUBBY NOSE'"
"HE WAS SWEEPING THE CHIMNEY WITH HIS LONG, BEAUTIFUL TAIL"
"THEY WERE SAILING AWAY WITH GRANDPA GRUMBLES"
"BUSHY-TAIL WENT SPLASH, DASH, INTO THE LAKE"
"'I WILL TUCK THEM IN MY SLEIGH'"
"SOON THE CIRCUS COTTON-TAILS CAME IN VIEW"
"BUNNY AND SUSAN WERE SITTING BY THE FIRE"
SNUBBY NOSE AND TIPPY TOES
CHAPTER I
Bunny and Susan Cotton-Tail sat by the fire one winter evening warming
their paws.
"What's that?" asked Bunny.
"What's that?" asked Susan.
They went to the window and saw a very little Bunny stuck fast in a
snowdrift.
"Help, help," cried Bunny, "I will get the snow-shovel."
"Help, help," cried Susan, "I will get the wheelbarrow."
Bunny and Susan went out to shovel the little Bunny out of the
snowdrift. Bunny said, "You dear little fellow, how did you get stuck
fast in the snowdrift?"
Susan looked hard over her spectacles and said, "Why, it is our own
dear grandchild, Snubby Nose."
Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled! Bunny Cotton-Tail
shoveled as fast as he could, and in sixteen minutes he had Snubby Nose
out of the snowdrift. Susan put him in the wheelbarrow and wheeled him
to the house. All the time Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he
howled!
Susan said, "Go and get the big tub and we will give Snubby Nose a hot
bath."
Bunny got the tub and some warm water and he and Susan gave Snubby Nose
a hot bath. They rubbed him dry with a soft towel, and all the time
Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled!
Just at this very minute Grandpa Grumbles came in shaking the snow off
his fur and whiskers. He shook his green cotton umbrella. He came in
grumbling,
"It's noisy here, I do declare,
I just came out to take the air."
Snubby Nose stopped his noise and stared at Grandpa Grumbles. Bunny and
Susan said, "Sit down by the fire, Grandpa, and warm your paws."
Grandpa Grumbles sat down.
Snubby Nose cried, "Grandpa Grumbles, tell us a story, please tell us a
story."
Bunny Cotton-Tail said, in a whisper, "Please don't mention
_noses_."
Susan Cotton-Tail said, "Please don't mention _snowdrifts_."
Grandpa Grumbles was wet and cold, so he grumbled right out loud, "I
will tell about as many _noses_ and _snowdrifts_ as I please
in this story!" Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled!
Susan took him up in her arms. She carried him to bed and sang him a
nonsense song. By and by Snubby Nose fell asleep. Susan went back
downstairs and found Grandpa Grumbles asleep by the fire.
Bunny said, "I wonder what makes him grumble so much?"
Susan said, "T wonder what happened to Snubby Nose. He has such a funny
little nose!"
_Then the most surprising thing happened!_
As they sat talking, "thump, bump" was heard, and Snubby Nose fell down
stairs! He fell right on his ugly little nose and broke it!
"Get the camphor! Get the smelling salts! Help, help!" cried Bunny and
Susan.
Grandpa Grumbles woke, up and cried,
"Someone has a sad mishap,
Just when I try to take a nap."
I do not know what in the world they would have done if Doctor
Cotton-Tail had not come in that very minute. He came in to dry his fur and
whiskers!
He set Snubby Nose's little ugly nose and said, "It will not look very
pretty, but perhaps it did not look pretty before. You must wear a 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."