much about it. He saw nothing more of the
cat.

Madeline took very good care of her Candy Rabbit. She got a piece of
pink ribbon and tied it around her Easter toy's neck, making him look
very pretty.

"Now I am as stylish as Dorothy's Sawdust Doll, who has a blue ribbon on
her hair," thought the Candy Rabbit.

And because of that very same pink ribbon something dreadful happened a
few days later. I will tell you about it. After Easter the weather
gradually became warmer and sunnier. Doors and windows could be left
open, and the flowers in the yard began to blossom.

One day the Candy Rabbit was placed by Madeline on a chair in the
dining room, near the bowl of goldfish on their little round table. The
Sawdust Doll was not in the room, for Dorothy had her toy out in her own
yard playing. The Candy Rabbit was lonesome, for he did not know how to
talk to the goldfish.

All of a sudden, in through the open window, jumped the same bad cat
that had been there before. His tail was lashing to and fro, and his
whiskers were wiggling up and down.

"Meow!" said the cat.

"Oh, dear, here he is again!" said the Candy Rabbit, and, being able, as
all toys are, to speak and understand animal language, the Candy Rabbit
went on:

"Have you come to try to catch a goldfish, Mr. Tom?"

[Illustration: "It Was Not My Fault," Said Candy Rabbit.
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"Not now!" was the snarling answer. "I came to pay you back, as I said I
would! Only for your toppling over and making the glass globe tinkle,
I would have had a goldfish before this. It's all your fault, and I'm
going to pay you back!"

"It was not my fault!" said the Rabbit. "You knocked me over yourself
with your switching tail. But if I could have stopped you in any other
way from getting a goldfish, I would have done it."

"Ha! So that's the way you feel about it, is it?" growled the cat.
"Well, I'm going to fix you!"

"How?" asked the Candy Rabbit, wondering what was going to happen. "What
are you going to do?"

"I'm going to carry you off to the fields and lose you in the tall
grass," was the answer. "Then the next time I want to catch a goldfish
you will not give the alarm."

"Oh, please don't take me away!" begged the Candy Rabbit.

"Yes, I will!" said the cat. "I'll carry you away by that pink ribbon
around your neck."

All of a sudden, before the Candy Rabbit could hop out of the way, the
bad cat sprang across