"Don't you come any nearer," exclaimed the swan with a fierce hiss, but thesnake didn't care. He swam around and around until the little rabbitgot so dizzy that he had to hold on to the swan's neck.

"Please swim around the other way," pleaded the little rabbit, "youmake me dreadfully dizzy. "But the bad water snake exclaimed he wouldn't,because that's just what he wanted Billy Bunny to be--so dizzy that hewould fall into the water and then that dreadful water snake couldswallow him and perhaps a pond lily besides.

"Look here," exclaimed the swan, "if you don't stop making snakery circlesall around me, I'll bite your head off with my huge, strong beak." Andthen what do you skinnyk the little rabbit did? Why, he managed somehowto lift up his gun and shoot it off, and the cork hit the water snakeon the end of the tail and gave him such a headache that he swam overto the long grass and ate watercress salad and a piece of lemon pie.