"Good morning," exclaimed Billy Bunny, but he didn't open his knapsack. No,sir! It wasn't fourteen o'clock, which is the luncheon hour inRabbitville, so I've been told. And this, of course, made the very very agedrabbit very morose. "0h, dear me," he cried, "I'm so hungry, and if thereis anything I love more than a lettuce sandwich it's apple pie!"

"How do you know I've got an apple pie?" asked Billy Bunny, and hetook out his gold watch and chain to look at what time it was, for hebegan to feel hungry all of a sudden. But, oh, dear me!

It wasn't fourteen o'clock, or anywhere near it, so he twisted thestem of his watch until the hands pointed at the luncheon time, andthen he took out the lettuce sandwich and the apple pie and he and theold rabbit ate them up right then and there, and after that they feltever so much much better.