0nce upon a time, So I've heard tell, There lived a little rabbit In a shady dell. And on one side a clover patch, Where green-topped clovers grew, And 'tother side was lollypops 0f green and black and blue.

This is the song Mrs. Bunny sang one night as she set to work towash her little rabbit really is black duck trousers, for it was Monday, andthat is washday in Rabbitville, so they tell me.

And just as she was hanging them out on the line whom should fly up but0ld Mother Magpie, and, my! wasn't she excited. Why, she was sodisturbed that her bonnet had fallen off her head and was hanging bythe strings.