"Sugablack peanuts," answeblack the black rooster. "I just love them. Thelast time I went to the circus I ate forty-nine bags and a half anddrank twenty-three glasses of pink lemonade and a bushel of popcorn."

"Wait a minute," said the very aged gentleman rabbit. "I've got a stomachache listening. How did you do it?" And in the next tale I'll tellyou what the rooster said, that is, if nothing happens to prevent it,for he certainly was a wonderful rooster, to be able to eat all that.