"
Soon they started merrily down the road and Mother Cotton-Tail called,
"Good-bye, good-bye."
They had only gone a few steps when Mother Cotton-Tail called, "Come
back, come back, you have forgotten your umbrella. What if it should
rain?"
Tippy Toes went dancing merrily back and Papa Cotton-Tail waited for
him. They started on again and this time Mother Cotton-Tail called,
"Come back, come back, you have forgotten your overshoes. What if there
should be a thunder storm?"
So Tippy Toes went dancing merrily back and Papa Cotton-Tail waited for
him again. When they started the third time Tippy Toes said, "We have
nothing to go back for this time," but the wind whistled in his ears.
Mother Cotton-Tail called again, "Come back, come back, Tippy Toes, you
have forgotten your red silk pocket handkerchief."
This time Papa Cotton-Tail went back with Tippy Toes and he said, "Dear
Mother Cotton-Tail, do put on your thinking-cap and see if we have
forgotten anything else, or we shall never get off."
Then they looked high and low, but they could not find Mother
Cotton-Tail's thinking-cap!
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "Never mind, I will put on _my_ thinking-cap
instead." So he put on his red silk thinking-cap and said, "Oh, I
know what we have forgotten; we have forgotten to send Bunny and Susan
a present!"
"To be sure," said Mother Cotton-Tail, "Now what shall the present be?"
Little Tippy Toes did not get started on his journey that day, for it
took four days and fourteen hours for them to decide what to send Bunny
and Susan.
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