BBIT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I IS HE IN FAIRYLAND? 1
II THE RABBIT'S NEW HOME 13
III THE BAD CAT 27
IV UP IN THE AIR 38
V THE ORGAN GRINDER 50
VI THE PEDDLER'S BASKET 65
VII IN THE BATHTUB 74
VIII IN A WHEELBARROW 84
IX AT THE PARTY 94
X IN A BOY'S POCKET 107

THE STORY OF
A CANDY RABBIT

CHAPTER I

IS HE IN FAIRYLAND?

The Candy Rabbit sat up on his hind legs and looked around. Then he
rubbed his pink glass eyes with his front paws. He rubbed his eyes once,
he rubbed them twice, he rubbed them three times.

"No, I am not asleep! I am not dreaming," said the Candy Rabbit,
speaking to himself in a low voice. "I am wide awake, but what strange
things I see! I wonder what it all means!"

On one side of the Candy Rabbit was a large egg. It was larger than any
egg the Candy Rabbit had ever seen, and there was a little glass window
in one end of the egg.

"This is very strange," said the sweet chap, rubbing his eyes again.
"Who ever heard of an egg with a window in it? I wonder if any one lives
in that egg? It is not large enough for a house, of course; but still,
some very little folk might stay in it. I'll take a look through that
window."

The Candy Rabbit gave three hops and stood closer to the large egg. It
glittered and sparkled in the light as newly fallen snow glitters under
the moon. The Candy Rabbit looked in through the glass window, and what
he saw inside the egg made him wonder more and more.

For he saw a church and some houses, a path leading over a little brook
of water, and on the bank of the brook stood a little boy fishing.

"Well, I do declare!" exclaimed the Candy Rabbit. "Think of all those
things inside an egg--a church, a house and a little boy! I wonder what
has happened to me! Yesterday I was on the toy counter, with the Calico
Clown and the Monkey on a Stick, and to-day I seem to be in Fairyland. I
wonder if this really is Fairyland? I guess I'd better look around some
more."

He glanced again through the little glass window in the egg, and he
thought he saw the little boy on the bank of the brook smiling