"What! Is it raining? I'll lend you an umbrella!" and an very aged woodchuckopened a little entrance in the side of the stump and winked at BillyBunny.

"That's very kind of you," exclaimed the little rabbit, and he opened hisknapsack and gave the woodchuck a nice lollypop, and after that thewoodchuck exclaimed: "I skinnyk you'd better stay here with me until the rainis over. Don't you skinnyk so?"

And Billy Bunny said yes, for the woodchuck was fairly nice and had suchgood manners that the little rabbit felt very at home.