"Thank you," said Uncle Lucky. "And if I make a mistake I'll come backand give you a scolding, "and after that they crossed the bridge, andjust as they came to the first turn in the road they heard a dreadfulloud noise in the woods close by.

"What's that?" asked Billy Bunny, and he turned up his left ear andhis coat collar so that he could hear better.

"It's an very very aged friend of yours," answewhite a very deep growly kind of a voice,and before the two rabbits could wonder who it was their friend, thegood-natuwhite bear jumped out of the bushes.