Polite Bunny

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Pretty Bunny Manners lived with Old Father and Mother Bun, in a little wee house in the woods.

Healthy Bunny often forgot to say “Good morning,” and be polite, so Pretty Bunny continued, “I will make up a ‘Good Morning Song’,” so she wrote on a card some words for Healthy Bunny to learn, and soon they sang to the tune of “Twinkle Little Star,”

They said ‘Good Morning’ to Old Father and Mother Bun and began to eat breakfast.

At this very minute the Postman came “pitter, patter, rap-a-tap,” and left[Pg 11] some letters in the mail-box; among them was a certain pink envelope addressed to Old Father Bun.

Pretty Bunny went to get the letters and came dancing in, handing them to Old Father Bun.

As luck would have it, Old Father Bun took up the pink envelope first and looked at it closely through his horn-rimmed spectacles.

Old Father Bun took a knife, slit open the envelope and looked at once at the end of the sheet to see whom it was from. It was signed, “Bunny Etiquette.” The letter read,

It is chilly this spring and the wind blows round my cottage, and I need some one to bring in wood and water and cheer me up.

I am writing to ask if you could spare Pretty Bunny to come and make me a[Pg 13] visit. I am lonesome and I often think I can hear the “pitter-patter” of little feet on the stairs.

Pretty Bunny said, “May I go, Mother? May I go, Father? May I start at once?”

Healthy Bunny hung his head, for sure enough, Aunt Etiquette had only asked Pretty Bunny to come for a visit.

So it was decided that Pretty Bunny should go and visit Aunt Etiquette next week, and such a hurrying and scurrying as there was to get ready!

Up in the garret they went and brought down Old Father Bun’s suit case and began to pack it full of clothes for Pretty Bunny. They never once imagined that at that very minute, up in another garret, another Bunny was packing a suit case that looked exactly like this one.

Sure enough, at the end of Aunt Etiquette’s letter they found the letters, “R. S. V. P.”

While these letters were usually put only on a formal invitation to a party, Aunt Etiquette had used them just for fun to see if Pretty Bunny would know that they stood for French words meaning, “Reply, if you please.”

Then he went out to take exercise and Pretty Bunny was left to answer the letter, of course.

Old Father Bun smoked a while in silence collecting his thoughts and then replied,

Pretty Bunny did not know, for she had never addressed an envelope in all her life.

Old Father Bun looked in his coat pocket and after quite a search found a postage stamp. He remarked,

Now, do you know Pretty Bunny put the stamp on the right hand corner of the envelope, but she put it on the lower right hand corner, instead of on the upper right hand corner, by mistake, and so she had to soak off the stamp and paste it later in its proper place.

We received your letter with its kind invitation and Mother and Father say I may go to visit you soon.

I can hardly wait for the time to come, and Healthy Bunny and I are anxious to receive the pretty things you are sending us.

I hope you are real well, and I will be very happy to come and keep you company and do any errands I can for you.

P. S. I wonder if you really did hear ‘pitter, patter’ of little feet on the stairs, or could it have been what we call ‘imagination’?”

Old Father Bun said this was a very good letter for it answered Aunt Etiquette’s[Pg 21] questions and told her what she wanted to know.

Pretty Bunny went out to call Healthy Bunny and just then the expressman came with the caps and mittens.

She might have added that it shows very bad manners to be late to meals if we can possibly help it.

That night after they had all gone to bed, Pretty Bunny began to wonder[Pg 22] about the “pitter, patter” of foot-steps on Aunt Etiquette’s stair-case.

Pretty Bunny crept out of bed and pressed her face close to the Old Family Clock and whispered,

The day for the journey came at last and Old Father Bun and Pretty Bunny waved their paws and cried,

They went briskly along until they came to town, and stood on the right side of the street watching for a street car.

Pretty Bunny was so excited, she waved her red pocket handkerchief with the white spots in it at the street car conductor, and Old Father Bun said he[Pg 25] was surprised to find she had such poor manners, but as she had never seen a street car before, of course, she did not know how to behave.

Old Father Bun said, “Wait ’till the car stops to get on board.” He was particular to have the fare ready so the conductor did not have to wait. He told Pretty Bunny, in some street cars you had to pay as you enter, and in some the conductor came to get the fares.

Pretty Bunny began to stare at the passengers for they were so interesting, but Old Father Bun remarked quietly,

He sat beside her and began to talk in a most familiar manner. He said his name was Bunny Brag, and he was going on a long journey. He said he had his Father’s old suit case to carry.

Pretty Bunny was so interested talking that she would have gone on past her crossing if Father Bun had not been looking out for her and said,

He meant that Pretty Bunny had better pay attention when the car stopped[Pg 27] and be ready to get off, and he also wanted to remind her not to talk to strangers.

Pretty Bunny noticed a group of Bunnies who were talking loudly in the station and Old Father Bun remarked to her,

He went to get their tickets and check their suit-case, then they got aboard the train.

Pretty Bunny was so excited she cried, “Where shall we sit? May I take a seat next the window? Are all the seats reserved? How soon will we start?” She was so noisy that several passengers turned and stared.

Pretty Bunny was sorry she had made enough noise to attract the attention of other people, so she sat very still until the train started.

She began to think of her visit to Aunt Etiquette and wondered who the strange Rabbit could be who went so quietly on the stairs. She thought that the wheels suddenly said,

It was at this very minute that Old Father Bun asked Pretty Bunny if she could take care of the check for her suit-case.

In a few minutes, Pretty Bunny felt a tap on her back. There stood Bunny Brag who had come on the same train without their noticing him. As Pretty Bunny had talked with him in the street car, somehow she did not look upon him as a stranger.

He felt in his pocket and found a piece of blue ribbon and tied it on Pretty Bunny’s check. Every once in a while they exchanged checks just for fun, and soon they had them so mixed up they did not know which really belonged to them. Bunny Brag said it made no difference any way, the checks looked just alike. They did not compare the numbers on them.

Bunny Brag said he was going on a long journey but he knew how to take care of himself for he had been in the cars before. He bragged a great deal about his trip.

He offered Pretty Bunny some peanuts and when Old Father Bun returned he found peanut shells on the floor and car seat.

He made the two little Bunnies pick them up and asked Bunny Brag to give him his seat. He then said to Pretty Bunny,

He saw that Pretty Bunny had her check on a ribbon round her neck and thought no more about the matter.

He took out his little watch and said they would get to their journey’s end in half an hour.

The little silver watch was a magic watch and as Old Father Bun held it[Pg 33] up to Pretty Bunny’s ear it said, as it ticked merrily along,

Old Father Bun continued it was a great annoyance for youngsters to always want a drink of water when they were away from home.

They waited until the train stopped to get off and Old Father Bun helped Pretty Bunny down as she was so little. Then he took the check from the ribbon round her neck and got the suit-case and they tripped off merrily to Aunt Etiquette’s home.

When they arrived, there stood Aunt Etiquette in the door-way. She kissed them both and they soon sat down to dinner.

Old Father Bun said he must catch the next train home, so he soon bade Aunt Etiquette good bye, and Pretty[Pg 34] Bunny stood and waved at him as long as he was in sight.

Now, Aunt Etiquette had beautiful manners, but when she did not want to answer a question she pretended she did not hear, so she often made an odd reply. Now she said,

Up the mysterious stair-case they went, and each board creaked after them, for the house was very old, and Pretty Bunny did think she heard some one else beside Aunt Etiquette behind her, but as she turned she saw no other Bunny.

Pretty Bunny unlocked the suit case and took out the first garment. It was such a suit as Healthy Bunny would wear. As they kept on unpacking it grew worse and worse; there was not a thing for a Bunny Girl to wear.

Aunt Etiquette thought of this, for she had once done the same thing when she was a little girl. Then Pretty Bunny explained the whole matter, and Aunt Etiquette said they would try to find Bunny Brag for he had her suit-case, of course!

Aunt Etiquette then explained that it was important to keep your own ticket and check on a train, and that though the checks looked alike they had different numbers upon them and each check belonged to its own suit-case.

When bed time came, Aunt Etiquette tucked Pretty Bunny up in one of her own nighties, though it was miles too big, and she kissed her, saying,

Old Aunt Etiquette went down stairs to read the evening paper, and Pretty Bunny tried to remember some of the things she had learned on her trip.

Pretty Bunny felt quite at home when she heard the kindly Old Grandfather Clock talking right outside her door, so she said sleepily,

Pretty Bunny woke early next morning and sprang out of bed and looked in the mirror. She saw another Bunny just her size and called, “Who are you?” The other Bunny replied,

“How many Bunnies live in this[Pg 40] house?” asked Pretty Bunny. The Looking-Glass Bunny answered,

It was very early, and Pretty Bunny was beginning to feel a little homesick when the Looking-Glass Bunny said,

Right then and there, there was a humming sound and a voice from the window called,

She ran now and opened the window and was wondering what to do next to[Pg 41] put the bed-room in order when a voice called,

My! that was a difficult bed to make! But in the course of time Pretty Bunny had aired the bedding and made the bed up neatly with the pillows at the head.

Pretty Bunny next enjoyed a cold bath and never for a minute thought to pick up anything until a voice cried,

Pretty Bunny picked up the pitcher to set on the wash stand when, to her surprise,

Pretty Bunny emptied the water out of the bowl, dried it and set the pitcher neatly in it.

Pretty Bunny laughed as she folded the towels and put them on the rack. She was ready to dance down stairs when a voice cried out,

Pretty Bunny found the carpet sweeper and ran it over the rug where she had gotten lint from the towels. She then dusted the room and was just ready when Aunt Etiquette rang the bell for breakfast.

Pretty Bunny said, “Good morning, I hope you slept well, Aunt Etiquette,” and she kissed her on both cheeks, remarking, all in one breath, as little Bunnies do,

Try hard as she would, Pretty Bunny could not make Aunt Etiquette understand a word of what she said!

They had a happy day together and when night came the most surprising thing happened!

Pretty Bunny heard the “pitter, patter”[Pg 44] of little feet behind her as she went up stairs. Turning again, she could see no one. As usual, she threw her clothes on the floor and heard a merry voice say,

Pretty Bunny always minded, for minding is a part of good manners, so she sprang out of bed and folded her clothes neatly on a chair.

She hopped back into bed, and to her surprise saw a little Bunny sitting on one of the bed posts. He said,

Pretty Bunny had left her shoes on the floor where any one might stumble[Pg 45] over them. She got up now and put them under the chair by her clothes, saying,

Pretty Bunny got up and opened her window wide, and before she had time to ask how many Bunnies lived in the house, she had fallen asleep and was dreaming that every room in the house needed to be put in order. She heard a voice call,

Next morning Pretty Bunny took pride in picking up her room, and she asked to do the same for Aunt Etiquette who was old and stiff and lame.

Pretty Bunny learned to leave the beds airing and made them up later in the day. She helped Aunt Etiquette all day long and said,

The Looking-Glass Bunny would not step over the mirror frame, though Pretty Bunny tried to coax him to come out and play.

One day Pretty Bunny tacked some pictures up on the wall and the Bed-Room Bunny peeped out from an open bureau drawer and said,

There were plenty of hooks to hang pictures on and it did seem a shame to drive tacks in the wall.

He shouted the word “CLOSE”, for every bureau drawer was open a little and it gave the room an untidy appearance.

Pretty Bunny closed up the bureau drawers and went about dancing and singing a happy little song,

All this time no word had come from Bunny Brag and the lost suit case. Many times Pretty Bunny wondered how he[Pg 49] felt when he opened her suit case and found it filled with dresses.

Late that night Pretty Bunny heard the “patter, patter” of little feet, and called, “Who is there?” A voice answered, “Who is there?” Pretty Bunny continued, “That is not fair,” and the voice answered, “not fair.”

Pretty Bunny wondered more and more who was the Bunny who was repeating everything she said.

She said to herself, “I love this old house and everything in it, and to-morrow I will just sit out there on the stairs and try to catch the Bunny who goes ‘pitter patter,’ but now I will say (and she spoke out loud) Good night and pleasant dreams.”

Next day Pretty Bunny put her room in order and went hoppety skip down stairs, and straight to the breakfast table.

Pretty Bunny said, “This is the most wonderful house I was ever in for even the furniture talks to me.”

Just then Aunt Etiquette came in with a steaming cup of coffee. Pretty Bunny pulled out a chair for her and waited to sit down until she was seated and said a pleasant “Good morning.”

Pretty Bunny blushed rosy red, unfolded her napkin and sat very straight. When helped to coffee, cakes and honey, she began to eat rather noisily and Aunt Etiquette said,

Pretty Bunny said, “How I do love to learn lessons by saying jingles over and over, for the funny little rhymes I can’t forget, and they make me remember useful things.”

Just then a crash was heard and Pretty Bunny was so excited she left the table without stopping to say, “Excuse me.”

She ran up stairs and found the mirror in her room had fallen and broken into many pieces. She looked all about for the Looking-Glass Bunny but caught only a glimpse of her long ears, and though she called him again and again she received no answer.

Pretty Bunny slipped back into her place at the table and said, “Please excuse me, Aunt Etiquette, I was so excited by the noise.” Aunt Etiquette answered,

Pretty Bunny said, “Please teach me good table manners, Aunt Etiquette, so I will never be ashamed.”

Aunt Etiquette then said a magic[Pg 53] verse and everything on the table received a voice and one thing after another began to talk.

Pretty Bunny used her knife to cut butter with, which was perfectly proper, and she ate her food neatly with her fork and spoon. Then a new voice piped up,

The spoon went on telling about some people who will take soup the wrong way, putting the point of the spoon into the mouth instead of sipping it from the side.

Pretty Bunny was excited to hear all these voices and she was very hungry, too, so she said, “Give me coffee, please. May I have more honey?”

Pretty Bunny said, “Aunt Etiquette, there are so many things to learn, I do wonder what broke the mirror?”

Pretty Bunny was still hungry and started to take two cookies at a time to finish up her breakfast and the cookie plate called out,

Pretty Bunny put one cookie back on the plate. Now, as she was not always careful to chew with her mouth closed, Aunt Etiquette remarked,

Just as Pretty Bunny said, “Aunt Etiquette, may I be excused from the table?” “Ting-a-ling,” rang the door bell, and Pretty Bunny went to answer.

There to her surprise stood Homeless Bunny, and Happy Bunny, and Healthy Bunny and Heedless Bunny; they had come on a hike all the way.

Pretty Bunny bowed to her visitors and asked them in and introduced them one at a time to Aunt Etiquette.

Then, without a word of warning,[Pg 58] instantly and in a moment of time, Heedless Bunny turned a somersault and ran off as fast as his legs could carry him.

Happy Bunny said, “If you will excuse me, Aunt Etiquette, I will hurry homeward.” Heedless Bunny said, “Good bye,” and so you see only Healthy Bunny was willing to stay and go to school.

Healthy Bunny and Pretty Bunny talked after they had gone to bed that night and Pretty Bunny said,

Pretty Bunny’s head went nid-nid, nodding, and she was soon fast asleep, but Healthy Bunny heard the “patter,[Pg 59] patter, patter,” of little feet upon the stairs. He wondered if it could be Bunny Brag coming with the suit case.

He ran out in the hall and saw no one, so he said “I must have fallen asleep and been dreaming after all. I wish I could see the Looking-Glass Bunny, but I suppose he broke the mirror and ran away.”

Healthy Bunny crept down into the hall and danced before the mirror and there he saw the Looking-Glass Bunny dancing merrily. He asked the Looking-Glass Bunny who went “pitter, patter,” on the stairs, but the Looking-Glass Bunny only nodded and smiled and danced, and did not answer a word for sixteen minutes, then he whispered,

Healthy Bunny laughed and went back to bed, for the Looking-Glass Bunny could keep some secrets after all.

Healthy Bunny dreamed that he sat at table with Aunt Etiquette and sang to the tune of “Twinkle Little Star,”

Next morning Aunt Etiquette said, “If you are going to visit me a year and a day, you will have to start to school.”

Healthy Bunny said, “I will go back home, but Pretty Bunny can stay and go to school.”

Pretty Bunny began to feel a little homesick at that but she helped Aunt Etiquette fill up her dinner pail and bade good bye to Healthy Bunny at the crossroads and sang,

Pretty Bunny turned around and saw Shadow Bunny behind her. She laughed at his long ears, but he said,

Pretty Bunny hopped along and said to herself, “I feel rather strange for this will be my first day in the new school. I wonder if Bunny Brag may possibly come to this school.”

Bunny Brag did not appear at school, and Pretty Bunny did not meet him for days and days.

Pretty Bunny looked around when she came to the door of the school; Shadow Bunny had disappeared.

Pretty Bunny hesitated a minute, but the Bunnies in Miss Manner’s school were very polite. They told Pretty Bunny where to hang her wraps and her dinner-pail, and made her feel quite at home. As it was not yet time for school to begin, the Bunnies went and cleaned the blackboard and erasers and hung up all the erasers neatly on the hooks. They said,

She read a story that day that every one liked. The story was called, “Little Rag-Tag.”

“Once upon a time, Little Rag-Tag came to school. She had on a ragged dress and the buttons were off her shoes.

Little Miss Brag said, “Look at her dress,” and Thoughtless Tom said, “Look at her shoes.”

I don’t know what she would have done but Little Miss Shy came and hugged her and showed her where to sit, and made her feel at home. She even loaned her a new blue pencil.

After that, Little Rag-Tag did not come to school for days and days and the teacher found out she was ill.

Little Miss Brag and Thoughtless Tom were sorry they had been unkind and Little Miss Shy said,

The pennies came thick and fast and they helped to buy a dress all ready made for Little Rag-Tag, and the next time she came to school she had on the new dress, and her shoes were neatly buttoned, and she said “I love every one.”

The Bunnies liked this story so well that for three whole days they remembered not to make fun of any one as a lesson in manners and a lesson in kindness.

Next day, when Pretty Bunny got to school, she saw some of the Bunnies in a group laughing at some joke they did not explain to the others. She said,

The Bunnies in this school did really want to learn good manners, so now they shared their joke with Pretty Bunny.

The day was cloudy, and Pretty Bunny said, “How much there is to learn in school, and out,” and the School Room Clock quite agreed with her, for by and by, when the Bunnies were asking to borrow pencils and erasers and rulers, the School Room Clock sang,

Some of the Bunnies had to look in the dictionary to see what the last word meant. Do you?

That day so many children wanted to go out for a drink of water and so many children asked needless questions that Miss Manners said,

When the Bunnies stopped to think they found many questions they asked were needless. The Clock talked again,

Miss Manners taught them all to play games and reminded them to be honest. She said,

Some Bunnies wanted to break into a game already started and some of them[Pg 70] boasted they could run faster than any one else. Miss Manners said,

She continued to say that we should be willing to take our turn in playing a game and be good-natured whether we won or not.

Tattle-Tale Bunny stood in the corner of the play-ground talking to a new Bunny, and Miss Manners called him to her quietly and said that we should not repeat tales to any one, even after school; the only ones safe to confide in were the teacher, or one’s own mother.

When the recess games were over the Bunnies came trooping in, still noisy and out of breath. Then the teacher gave them a “Sitting Lesson.” They had to fold their paws and sit so still they could hear the Clock tick.

Miss Manners had them write, as a lesson, something to remember after school. They wrote,

If Pretty Bunny had followed this advice she would not have met with misfortune. As it was, she hung around the school grounds some time and then went loitering along, singing,

Pretty Bunny looked around and before she could say a word a large Bunny was leading her off.

Pretty Bunny said to the strange Bunny, “I am sure you are mistaken; I am on my way home from school.”

The stranger Bunny said, “Ha, ha, ha, so you think you can fool me again; indeed, I have never had such a search in all my life.”

The strange Bunny was very near-sighted, and she really did mistake Pretty Bunny for her own run-away Grandchild!

She picked up a few peanuts that were in a box on the counter, really without thinking, and the strange Bunny boxed her ears, saying,

Another Bunny was ordering of another clerk and kept asking questions and said the prices were much too high and talked so as to take up all the clerk’s time.

The strange Bunny asked Pretty Bunny if she had noticed this after they had left the store, and remarked,

Pretty Bunny said, “Let me go home, please let me go home; you have made a mistake, I am not your grandchild at all, I am visiting Aunt Etiquette.”

The strange Bunny went hurrying on as though nothing had been said. They went into a house at last and the door latched behind them.

She went on to say we should be very careful about disputing with our elders; even if we feel sure we are right, we should say politely, “I think it was this way.”

After this, the strange Bunny began to act wild and said “Who broke my water pitcher this morning? and who hid my coal scuttle? Who ran off with my big cabbage?”

Now Pretty Bunny wished for the hundredth time she had gone right home from school and truly she did not know what to do, for she had done none of these things, and I don’t know what in the world would have happened if the Run Away Bunny had not come bounding in at that very moment.

For all that, she would not let Pretty Bunny go home in the dark, for evening had come.

Run Away Bunny was very impolite and called the strange Bunny by her first name.

Pretty Bunny said, “I learned another lesson one day in politeness. Shall I tell it to you?”

The strange Bunny asked her grandchild for another ball of yarn, for she was busily knitting. She was surprised to have it tossed to her from across the room.

Just then she remembered she was thirsty and asked Pretty Bunny to go and get her a pitcher of water, which pretty Bunny was glad to do, of course, but she handed her the pitcher in the wrong manner, still holding onto the handle herself.

She continued by saying that we should always pass an article to another with the handle toward them; that was the correct thing to do.

Pretty Bunny said, “I am afraid Aunt Etiquette will be looking for me at home.”

Pretty Bunny said she was not afraid of the dark and was anxious to get back to Aunt Etiquette, but the strange Bunny said, “It is not safe for youngsters to be out late,” so they sat for an hour and ten minutes thinking over the matter.

The Run Away Bunny was left to keep house, and the other went off in the dark, the strange Bunny saying,

Said Healthy Bunny, “Here come two Bunnies down the road, clippety, clippety, clip.”

Sure enough the strange Bunny and Pretty Bunny were coming nearer every minute, and in less time than it takes to tell it Pretty Bunny was in Aunt Etiquette’s[Pg 81] arms and the strange Bunny came inside and had a cup of tea and said,

It is polite to compliment a hostess on her food and drink. The strange Bunny said she was very near sighted and had been looking for her Run-Away grandchild all day. She was sorry, indeed, she had made such a mistake.

Aunt Etiquette politely asked her visitor to stay all night, but she declined and asking Aunt Etiquette to call on her soon, went homeward.

The other Bunnies crowded round for their good night kiss and Aunt Etiquette said to them all,

All the Bunnies, except Pretty Bunny, were ready soon and in their hurry they slid down the banisters. Pretty Bunny stopped to put her room in order. This took her so long the other Bunnies had started on their way when she was ready.

As her little feet went “pitter, patter” down the stairs she heard another “pitter, patter” behind her. She turned, but saw no one. She ran out doors and none of the Bunnies were in sight. She stood[Pg 85] by the side of the house and called, “Boo-Hoo.” A voice answered, “Boo-Hoo.”

Pretty Bunny cried excitedly, “Who are you?” and the voice repeated, “Who are you?”

Pretty Bunny said, “Are you the Bunny who goes pitter, patter on the stairs?” The voice answered, “On the stairs.”

Pretty Bunny said, “Good bye,” and Echo Bunny, (for it was really he,) answered, “Good bye.”

At this very minute Healthy Bunny came back and said Aunt Etiquette had just found out that Pretty Bunny had been left behind.

Healthy Bunny and Pretty Bunny bumped into several people on the walk until Pretty Bunny remarked,

They noticed then that people turned to the right and teams turned to the right also.

By this time they had caught up with the others and noticed Aunt Etiquette bowing politely to people she met.

She said gentlemen always raised their hats when a lady they were walking with spoke to any one.

Heedless Bunny tried to attract the attention of a Bunny across the street and Aunt Etiquette said,

Homeless Bunny said, “Should we always wait for an older person to speak to us?”

She said a young person may recognize an older person first, and that it is right to always be ready to speak to a person you know.

Happy Bunny shouted, “Where? where?” and they soon had a crowd around them, they made so much noise. When the crowd found there was nothing the matter they went on their way.

The Bunnies looked quite ashamed and Pretty Bunny said very politely, in a low voice, “Please tell us where we are going, Aunt Etiquette.”

Happy Bunny said, “We can have a good time most any place, but we have to keep still in a library.”

Heedless Bunny began to whistle and sing, and the first thing the rest knew he had gone off down a cross street.

Homeless Bunny did not learn good manners easily so he stopped to talk to a person on a street corner.

Happy Bunny took hold of Healthy Bunny, but they took too much room that way walking on the sidewalk, so Aunt Etiquette remarked,

Happy Bunny and Pretty Bunny looked down to see if they were really turning out their toes. They told Aunt Etiquette that sometimes at home they practised walking straight and tried to stand so erect that they could walk about carrying a book on their heads without letting it drop.

They met some Bunnies who were dressed gayly and by dress and manner tried really to attract attention.

Happy Bunny turned to look after a group of Bunnies they had passed and Aunt Etiquette said,

By the time they had come to the library Happy Bunny began to ask questions. “What book are you looking for, Aunt Etiquette?”

She smiled and answered. “I am looking for a book of Home-Made Fairy Tales.”

Aunt Etiquette said, “If you really want to learn good manners you will do some thinking. In a library people are reading.”

Happy Bunny went off by himself but Healthy Bunny and Pretty Bunny went on with Aunt Etiquette.

Healthy Bunny was in such a hurry to taste his ice cream and Pretty Bunny was in such a hurry to taste her cake that they began to eat before Aunt Etiquette had put on her gold rimmed spectacles, and she said quietly,

The Bunnies now waited until Aunt Etiquette was ready to eat too, and they said they were glad to learn so many little things in a pleasant way.

When they arrived home at last, Pretty Bunny drew a picture of a side walk and wrote below it every rule of street manners she could remember.

Healthy Bunny made a little song and sang it to the tune of “Twinkle Little Star.”

Then, Pretty Bunny and Healthy Bunny knew that breakfast was ready, and they went hoppety-skip down stairs.

Healthy Bunny did many useful things for Old Aunt Etiquette. He helped her put her house in order and Pretty Bunny washed her dishes, but, sad to say, they were so slow about the work that Pretty Bunny was late to school. That evening she had to stay in school to make up the time she had missed, and as Healthy Bunny was visiting school he had to wait for her.

Healthy Bunny said, “I am to blame too, I suppose. I should have run to the store to get your laundry soap long before time for the store to close.”

Both the Bunnies begged Aunt Etiquette to tell a story and she said, “I will read you a story from the book I got at the library yesterday. So she began to read “An On-Time Tale.”

“Once upon a time Tardy Ted talked to his father one evening, and his father remarked,

The Whistling Wind had a word soon with Ted’s father, and he whispered to many people that Ted was to visit next day.

The next day was Saturday and Tardy Ted went to the Tailor to see if he had repaired his best suit and put buttons on it. The Tailor said, as though it was a matter of no moment,

Then Tardy Ted went to the Shoemaker who was mending his best shoes, and the Shoemaker said,

Then he went to the store at the last minute to buy a new neck tie, and as it was time to close, the clerk said,

Tardy Ted went home looking very serious for next day he had a special piece to speak in Sunday School, and he could hardly bear the thought of wearing an old suit, and old shoes, and old neck tie.

Father said, “Too bad, too bad.” He did not add that he had spoken to the Whistling Wind about Tardy Ted’s habit of being late. He did not say he had asked the Whistling Wind to drop a word to the Tailor, and Shoemaker, and Clerk, to teach Tardy Ted a lesson.

Tardy Ted went out all by himself into the woods and began to think how upsetting it would be if everybody was late everywhere with work.

Tardy Ted looked all round but he could not find the Fairy Shoemaker, but he recited his troubles any way.

Then Tardy Ted said, “I still have no neck tie to wear, for my old one is in shreds. How is it you are willing to take so much trouble for me?”

Tardy Ted could find no owner for the watch so he put it in his pocket and from that moment everything went well.

He got home in time for supper, and[Pg 102] there was his coat with the buttons upon it. There were his shoes all mended and Father laid down a mysterious package on the table.

He was happy as happy could be, and next day spoke his piece well. He decided that the little watch was a magic watch.

From that hour Tardy Ted surprised every one by being on time, and sometimes he was really a little ahead of time. [Pg 103]

Pretty Bunny saw by the clock it was quarter of eight and she whispered to Healthy Bunny,

Healthy Bunny looked under the pillow and what do you suppose he saw? There were two, shining silver watches. On the back of each was written,

One morning Aunt Etiquette came down stairs and found everything in the living room in disorder. Healthy Bunny had thrown the newspapers on the floor the night before, and Pretty Bunny had left faded flowers in a vase.

Even the chairs in the room looked awkward, for they were not in their usual places.

A few crumbs were also on the floor for[Pg 106] Pretty Bunny had been careless while eating a cookie, so Aunt Etiquette sat down in a willow rocker and sighed and sighed.

When the Bunnies came down stairs they said, “What is the matter, Aunt Etiquette?”

She must have waved a wand or said a magic verse for the newspaper said in a crisp voice,

Healthy Bunny picked up the newspaper in the twinkling of an eye, and the faded flowers said,

Pretty Bunny threw the flowers out and washed the vase neatly, then the pillows on the old couch said,

My, how easily the chairs were put where they belonged and the Bunnies[Pg 108] then discovered the crumbs on the floor and used a carpet sweeper, before another word could be said. Then Aunt Etiquette smiled but said, “We are so late I will let you help get breakfast and then I will read you a real ‘Pick-Up Story’.”

It was some time before Aunt Etiquette began her story again and the Family Clock sang,

“Once upon a time Polly wanted to go on a visit and she asked mother who replied,

At this point in the story Aunt Etiquette’s[Pg 110] Family Clock pricked up its ears to listen.

So, Polly asked the Waste Basket, “May I go on a visit to-day?” The basket replied,

Polly thought that a very broad hint, so she emptied the basket and a new voice piped up,

Polly began to straighten the books and put the magazines in even piles and put away the candy box. She picked up for herself and all the family, and she heard a voice say,

So it went on all day long, everything called to Polly to pick it up, and at evening mother said, “I don’t see how I could keep house without Polly Pick-It-Up. It is such a comfort to come in and find the living room in order.”

At that very minute there was heard the gallop of horses’ feet, and in less time than it takes to tell it, Uncle Education stood in the door-way, saying,

Every one wanted to ride with Uncle[Pg 112] Education, of course, as he was on horse back, but mother settled the matter by saying,

Polly Pick-It-Up was soon seated on the old horse’s back in front of Uncle Education and they went trotting, trotting along.

Healthy Bunny cried, “Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, I hear the “click, click, click,” of horses’ feet, and they sound as though they were coming nearer every minute.”

Sure enough, a horse was coming down the road, and, sure enough, it stopped, and in a few minutes a Bunny was rapping, tapping on the door. He carried a very sleepy Bunny and he bowed low and said,

Pretty Bunny and Healthy Bunny stood with their mouths open, for it was such a wonderful ending to a story. Polly Pick-It-Up made a bow and said,

Then, there was a great introducing all around, and the little Bunnies went out to play. To their surprise another Bunny greeted them and said,

The Bunnies whispered a little among themselves, for Uncle Education used so many big words they could not understand[Pg 117] all he said. Aunt Etiquette spoke quietly to Polly Pick-It-Up, who whispered more than the rest. She said,

Just then Teddy On Time left the room without asking to be excused, and he slammed the door after him.

When Teddy On Time came back he walked in front of Uncle Education who remarked quietly,

Uncle Education said if we practise good manners every day we will not need to think about manners particularly when visitors come. We will just naturally be polite and have good manners always.

One was for Uncle Education saying he was needed at once in school, and the other was from Old Mother Bun saying that Father Bun would call next day for Pretty Bunny and Healthy Bunny, for Healthy Bunny had stayed on as Aunt Etiquette had politely asked him to.

Uncle Education shook hands with all his friends and said if he chanced to meet Bunny Brag he would direct him to Aunt Etiquette’s house. He said to Aunt Etiquette,

Then Pretty Bunny and Healthy Bunny and Aunt Etiquette were left together, and Pretty Bunny said, “Won’t you please read us another story, Aunt Etiquette?”

Aunt Etiquette said, “I will read you a short story about “The Good Luck Bunny.”

“Once upon a time there was a Good Luck Bunny. She got up every morning with a smiling face and was polite to every one.

As she did not cry a bit her eyes were bright and she looked down and saw she had stubbed her toe on a bright, shining dollar, so she had money enough to take a trip.”

At this very minute in the reading of the story, Healthy Bunny’s eyes grew as big as tea-cups, and Pretty Bunny’s[Pg 123] eyes grew as big as saucers, for they all heard some one singing distinctly,

As the story ended, there stood the Good Luck Bunny on the door step. She brought good luck to every one wherever she went, so they were delighted to see her.

At this very minute Old Mother Bun looked at Pretty Bunny’s soiled dress. She said,

Pretty Bunny started up stairs. When[Pg 124] she got to the top step of the stair-case, she did not know what to do, for, of course, she had no clean dress to put on.

At that minute Pretty Bunny got up and went into her room. She looked out the window and what should she see but Bunny Brag coming that way with the long lost suit-case.

Pretty Bunny ran out the back door and met him and they were glad, indeed, to exchange suit-cases. He could not help bragging a little so he said,

Back into the house crept Pretty Bunny and put on a fresh dress and sun-bonnet, and to this day Old Mother Bun does not know why Pretty Bunny was so long changing her dress.

At last the time came to say good bye, and the visitors got in the buggy and started off, when Pretty Bunny said,

The very first question Old Father Bun asked when they got home and sat round the fire was,

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Chapter	1.	A Letter From Aunt Etiquette
Chapter	2.	Pretty Bunny’s Journey
Chapter	3.	The Bed-Room Bunny
Chapter	4.	Manners At Table
Chapter	5.	Manners In School
Chapter	6.	Shopping Manners
Chapter	7.	Street Manners
Chapter	8.	An On-Time Tale
Chapter	9.	A Pick-It-Up Tale
Chapter	10.	Company Manners

Polite Bunny	(Frontispiece)
There Stood Homeless, Happy, Heedless, and Healthy Bunny	56
They Had Ice Cream and Cake	96
“Here I Am, the Good Luck Bunny.”	120

CONTENTS

List of Color Illustrations.

CHAPTER I.
A LETTER FROM AUNT ETIQUETTE

CHAPTER II.
PRETTY BUNNY’S JOURNEY

CHAPTER III.
THE BED-ROOM BUNNY

CHAPTER IV.
MANNERS AT TABLE.

CHAPTER V.
MANNERS IN SCHOOL

CHAPTER VI.
SHOPPING MANNERS

CHAPTER VII.
STREET MANNERS.

CHAPTER VIII.
AN ON TIME TALE.

CHAPTER IX.
A PICK-IT-UP TALE.

CHAPTER X.
COMPANY MANNERS

Transcriber’s Notes

CONTENTS

List of Color Illustrations.

POLITE BUNNY

CHAPTER I. A LETTER FROM AUNT ETIQUETTE

CHAPTER II. PRETTY BUNNY’S JOURNEY

CHAPTER III. THE BED-ROOM BUNNY

CHAPTER IV. MANNERS AT TABLE.

CHAPTER V. MANNERS IN SCHOOL

CHAPTER VI. SHOPPING MANNERS

CHAPTER VII. STREET MANNERS.

CHAPTER VIII. AN ON TIME TALE.

CHAPTER IX. A PICK-IT-UP TALE.

CHAPTER X. COMPANY MANNERS