sixteen pieces of
Wintergreen candy. It was pink wintergreen candy of course!

Susan said to Doctor Cotton-Tail, "How did you happen to come out in
this big snowstorm?"

Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I had a call to make, I was going to visit--"

Just then Susan began to sneeze. She sneezed so hard she nearly sneezed
her head off!

Doctor Cotton-Tail said,

"Susan that is quite absurd,
Such sneezing I have never heard."

Susan said by and by, "I beg your pardon, what were you saying when I
started to sneeze?"

Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I had a call, I was going to visit--"

At this very minute Snubby Nose set up a shout, for dear Bunny
Cotton-Tail leaned too near the candle and burned one of his whiskers!

Then Grandpa Grumbles shook his green cotton umbrella fiercely and
said,

"Such a noise I never heard,
I cannot hear a single word."

[Illustration: "GRANDPA GRUMBLES HAD NOT SEEN DR. COTTON-TAIL FOR TWO
HUNDRED AND SIX YEARS"]

Grandpa Grumbles had been sitting very still in a corner and Doctor
Cotton-Tail had not seen him up to this minute. He got up and shook
hands with him and said, "How do you do, sir, How do you do, sir!"

Grandpa Grumbles was pleased as pleased could be. He had not seen
Doctor Cotton-Tail for two hundred and six years! He cried out, "How do
you do, sir! How do you do, sir!"

All this time Snubby Nose sat up in his pink wrapper drinking tea out
of a pink cup and eating pink wintergreen candy. By and by Susan said,
"Doctor Cotton-Tail you were going to tell us where you were going to
call when you came here!"

Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I was on my way to call on little Tippy
Toes!"

"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.

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. He said,