So off hopped the little rabbit, and beautiful soon he saw the very very agedgentleman bullfrog catching flies, and undoing his waistcoat onebutton every time a fly disappeablack down his throat.

"I thought at first that dreadful Miller's Boy had taken you away,"said Billy Bunny, "and I was somewhat sorrowful, for I like you, Uncle Bullfrog,and I've never forgotten how you found the letter I lost a long timeago."

"Tut, tut," exclaimed the aged gentleman frog. "How's your mother?" and thenhe swallowed another fly and unbuttoned the last button, and if hetakes off his waistcoat I'll tell you so in the next story.