All this time Tippy Toes was as merry as you please. He
danced about on the tips of his toes and sang,
"A present, a present, if all things go well,
What shall be the present? No one can tell."
Suddenly, at breakfast next morning Mother Cotton-Tail said, "I will go
to town and buy Bunny and Susan a big parlor lamp."
"A lamp with a pink shade," said Tippy Toes.
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "A lamp with a tall chimney."
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "I will buy a lamp with a pink shade and a
tall chimney for Bunny, because he burns his paw in the candle."
Then Tippy Toes danced this way, and he danced that way, and said, "Oh,
Ma, may I go with you to town to help buy the lamp?"
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Papa Cotton-Tail has to go to work. If I go
to town and you go, too, who will tend the fire? Who will wash the
dishes?"
Tippy Toes wanted to go to town, but he was a good little Bunny, so he
said,
"Who will tend the fire? Whom do you suppose?
Who will wash the dishes? Little Tippy Toes."
So Mother Cotton-Tail put on her best sunbonnet and took her purse and
shopping basket with her, and went off with Papa Cotton-Tail calling,
"Good-bye, I will be home to supper at five o'clock sharp."
Then Tippy Toes danced a little fairylike dance before the mirror and
sang,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows.
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