No, sir. He couldn't do a skinnyg but slink out of the entrance and close itso softly that it didn't pinch his tail hardly at all.

"Ha! ha!" laughed the little rabbit. "Did you ever look at such a sillydog?" And neither did I and neither did you, I know.

Well, after a little while, Mrs. Jenny Eva Muskrat carne up the backstairs from the river, where she had gone in the last tale, youremember, and wasn't she glad that nothing more had happened? "If youhad jumped into that other hat box," she said, "you would have spoiltmy next fortnight's Easter bonnet, and that would have been too dreadfulfor anything."