aying: "Oh dear! Oh dear me! Oh hum
suz dud."

"Why, whatever has happened?" asked Bully. "Is Sammie dead?"

"Worse than that," said Susie, wiping her eyes on her apron.

"Much worse," chimed in Uncle Wiggily. "Just think, Bully, when Sammie
was starting off for school this morning, he went off in the woods a
little way to see if he could find a wild carrot, when a big boy rushed
up, grabbed him, and put him in a bag before any of us could save him!
And now he's gone! Completely gone!"

"So that's why he didn't come to school to-day," said Nurse Jane sadly.

"And I didn't feel like coming either," spoke Susie, crying some more.
"I tried to find Sammie, but I couldn't. Oh dear! Boo hoo!"

"We all tried to find him," said Mr. Littletail sadly.

"But we can't," added Mrs. Littletail still more sadly. "Our Sammie is
gone! The bad boy has him!"

"Oh, that is awful!" cried Bully. "But I'll see if I can't find him for
you."

So Bully hopped off through the woods, hoping he could find where the
boy lived who had taken Sammie away with him.

"And if I find him I'll help Sammie to get away," thought Bully. So he
went on and on, but for a long time he couldn't find Sammie. For,
listen, the boy who had caught the little rabbit had taken Sammie home,
and had made a cage for him.

"I'm going to keep you forever," said the boy, looking in through the
wire cage at Sammie. "I've always wanted a rabbit and now I have one."
Well, poor Sammie asked the boy to let him go, but the boy didn't
understand rabbit language, and maybe he wouldn't have let the bunny go,
anyhow.

Well, it was getting dark, and Sammie was very much frightened in his
cage, and he was wondering whether any of his friends would find him,
and help him escape.

"I'll call out loud, so they'll know where to look for me," he said, and
he grunted as loudly as he could and whistled through his twinkling
nose.

Well, it happened that just then Bully was hopping up a little hill, and
he heard Sammie calling.

"That's Sammie!" exclaimed Bully. "Now, if I can only rescue him!"

So the frog boy hopped on farther, and pretty soon he came to the yard
of the house where the boy lived. And Bully peeped in through a knothole
in the fence, and he saw Sammie in the cage.

"I'm here, Sammie!" cried Bully through the hole. "Don't be afraid, I'll
get you out of there."

"Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Sammie, clapping his paws.

But, after he had said it, Bully saw that it