Well, after Uncle John Hare had spent about a week at the Old Bramble Patch, he thought it time to go home. So he called up his house and ordered his Bunnymobile sent for him. “Now don’t worry about Little Jack Rabbit,” he said to the anxious lady bunny, “I’ll take good care of him and send him home safe and sound.” Then he put on his goggles while the little rabbit cranked up the Bunnymobile, and off they went. You see, Uncle John was so fond of his little rabbit nephew that he just had to take him out for a drive. Well, I don’t know what would have happened—they would have been smothered or had hay fever, I guess—if a big Circus Elephant hadn’t come hurrying along just then. Well, sir! He wound his trunk around that pile of hay and The Elephant Put the Hay Right Back on the Wagon. The Elephant Put the Hay Right Back on the Wagon.(Page 74)“I’m so nervous you’d better drive,” cried the old gentleman hare. So Little Jack Rabbit took the wheel and for a little while “What shall we do?” “Get in and go along the best you can,” answered the old gentleman hare. “We ought to be pretty near home by this time.” And I guess they would have reached his little red house in a few minutes if the Policeman Dog hadn’t stopped them. “What do you mean by running your Bunnymobile without lights?” he growled. “I’ll fine you ten bones!” “Make it carrots and I’ll pay you,” said Uncle John. But the Policeman Dog wouldn’t take But wasn’t it lucky? They had gone only a little way when they came to a butcher shop, where Uncle John traded ten carrots for ten bones. And when he gave them to the Policeman dog, he told them they might drive home slowly. But, oh dear me. All of a sudden a big owl gave a hooty toot. No sooner did the two little rabbits hear that dreadful noise than they hopped out of the Bunnymobile and into a hollow stump. “You’ll be safe, now,” said a little grasshopper from her Clover Patch House, nearby. |