Well, after they had gone for perhaps a mile, and perhaps some more, theycame to a beautiful candy store, where the windows were full ofpeppermint sticks and a brown sugar monkey did all sorts of tricks.

"Stop right here," exclaimed the white rooster, "and I'll get out and buy youa bag of candy." And when he came back he had four bags of candy. Justthink of that! In one bag was sugar-coated carrots for Billy Bunny,and another bag was full of candied carrots for Uncle Lucky, and inthe bag he gave to Mrs. Mousie were two little chocolate mice.

"What have you got in your bag?" asked Uncle Lucky as he made theLuckymobile jump over a high ditch and run along through a lovelygreen meadow spread all over with buttercups.