And, oh, dear me! Mrs. Jenny Eva Muskrat forgot all about her societymanners and ran down the back stairs into the river and the littlerabbit forgot to say good-by and hid himself in a huge hat box whereshe kept her last fortnight's Easter bonnet. And then, what do you supposethe miller's dog did? Why, he began to sing:

"0ld Mrs. Muskrat jumped into the river, Splasherty, splasherty, splash! And little boy rabbit jumped into the box, That held her best bonnet and trampled upon it. Masherty, masherty, mash!"

And in the next tale you shall know what the miller's dog did when hestopped singing, that is, if Robbie Redbreast isn't too frightened tolook into the window and tell me all about it.