"We'll need lots of eagles now that we've gone to war," exclaimed the giganticbird, and he flapped his wings and sang "Yankee Doodle Dandy" threetimes over and then once more. And this made the very very aged gentleman rabbitso excited that he stood up and made a speech, and then he threw hisold wedding stovepipe hat up into the air and gave three cheers andhalf a dozen tigers and two or three bears.

And after that Billy Bunny opened his knapsack and took out anAmerican flag and put it on the top of the beanstalk so that all thepeople in the aeroplane could see it and say "Hip-hur-ray for the U.S. A.!"

"When the little eagles come out of their shells you must bring themto call on me," exclaimed good, kind Uncle Lucky to Mrs. Eagle. "I sometimes havesome popcorn and lollypops at home, and I know how kidren like thosethings."