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Updated: June 22, 2025
After breakfast the Seventeen Little Bears began to practice their tricks. They slid on the banister and came downstairs head first. Soon they were all crying, "Oh," and "Ah, how I hurt my head;" and "Oh," and "Ah, how I hurt my toes!" Bunny cried, "Bring the camphor! Bring the smelling salts, while they are practicing their tricks!" Susan Cotton-Tail sat down in the corner. She wiped her eyes.
He could tell lovely stories, so he stayed a long time and told stories, and Susan Cotton-Tail went out in the kitchen and came back with a mince pie in each hand. They all enjoyed the pies, and then Bunny asked old Grizzly to spend the night with them. Old Grizzly said, "No, thank you." The house next door was vacant and he was going to live there.
Doctor Cotton-Tail called back, "Don't forget to eat wintergreen candy." By this time Bunny and Susan and Snubby Nose were tired and sleepy, and they all went to bed. Bunny began to snore and Susan began to snore, but Snubby Nose was still wide awake. What do you suppose Snubby Nose did? You can give three guesses and you will not guess what he did! He got out of bed and lit a candle.
"My fur and whiskers," said Bunny, "I never had a grandchild named Tippy Toes!" "Bless my buttons," said Susan, "What a cute little name." Then Grandpa Grumbles got up waving his green cotton umbrella and shouted, "Though the stormy north wind blows, I'll go with you to Tippy Toes." Then he and Doctor Cotton-Tail made a low bow and went out into the snowstorm.
We got a farmer out of bed to buy some eggs for our breakfast. He wanted to know what we were doing out so early, anyhow. We told him, celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary. Whereat he positively refused to take a cent for the eggs wedding present, he said. Around noon we passed a hunter, who stopped to chat, and ended by presenting us with a cotton-tail rabbit to cook for dinner.
Sure enough it was time for Bunnies to wake up because it was sunrise. Tippy Toes helped to get breakfast. He went to the well to draw water. He began to sing a little fairy song, "Ding, dong bell, Pussy's in the well." "Poor Pussy, I wonder if she is still in the well," he said. He peeped down to look into the well. Papa Cotton-Tail called, "Hurry, hurry, it is time for breakfast."
They got supper and waited, and waited, for Mother Cotton-Tail. At exactly six o'clock she came in. She was an hour late. She came on the stroke of the clock. She said, "I have been shopping all day." Mother Cotton-Tail took a wonderful lamp from her basket. It had a pink shade and a tall chimney. Papa Cotton-Tail said, "If you send the lamp to Bunny I must send something to Susan.
In the rough cedar-covered sections south of the Arkansas River, the loss among the quail was much lighter. The ground sparrows suffered severely, while the English sparrow seems to have come through in good shape. Many cotton-tail rabbits starved to death, while the deep, light snow of January made them easy prey for hawks and coyotes."
So they all helped pull the Seventeen Little Bears out of the water. Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I will tuck them in my sleigh and take them to Bunny and Susan. They will tuck them up warm in bed." Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes hung on to the back of the sleigh and they went whizzing merrily homeward, the wind whistling in their ears. The Seventeen Little Bears sneezed all the way.
Another little animal was the cotton-tail rabbit, so called from the white patch of fur under the tail, which is as bright as cotton bursting from the pod, I killed one once more by impulse than anything else. It ran from under my feet when I had a knife in my hand. I threw it at the rabbit, and to my surprise knocked it over, for I am a very bad shot with that sort of missile.
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