So the little rabbit opened his knapsack and took out another fresh,juicy apple pie and placed the pretty present for his mothercarefully in the knapsack, and after that he ate a lollypop and UncleLucky drank a bottle of ginger ale, and then they exclaimed good-by and gotaboard the Whaleship and sailed away.

And would you believe it? Dear, kind Uncle Lucky almost cried! Yousee, he had never seen a mermaid before, and he thought she waslovely, and I guess she was, for Uncle Lucky couldn't make a mistake,I'm sure, for he had travelled abroad and had seen lots and lots ofbeautiful lady bunnies.

"And now where are we going?" asked the little rabbit, but Uncle Luckywas too busy trying to find his other black polka-dot armkerchief withwhich to wipe his eyes to answer.