“Oh, I’m so happy! So happy,” sang Susie Littletail, the rabbit girl, as she hopped¹ on her way home from school one afternoon.

 

“Why are you so happy?” asked Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girl, as she picked up a stone in her webbed foot and tossed it into the pond. I mean she tossed the stone—not her foot. Lulu could throw a stone almost as good as a boy.

 

“Why, I am happy because my papa is going to give me a doll house for my birthday, which is to-morrow,” went on Susie. “Oh, it is the loveliest doll house! I saw it in a toy-store window, and papa is going to get it for me.”

 

“I wish I had a doll house,” spoke² Lulu, sadly like.

 

“I’ll let you play with mine,” Susie answered. “It is a large one, with room for two dolls, anyhow.”

 

“Oh, thank you, so much!” exclaimed Lulu,[Pg 79] and then she and Susie hurried on, stopping only to pick a few wild flowers that grew by the path which turned and twisted through the woods.

 

“When am I going to get my doll house, papa?” asked Susie at the supper table that evening.

 

“I will have it for you when I come home to-morrow night,” promised the rabbit gentleman. “I am having some of the rooms papered for you.”

 

“Oh, how lovely!” cried Susie, clapping her paws.

 

The lady mouse teacher at the hollow stump³ school, where the little rabbit girl and all the other animal children attended, allowed Susie to come home early on her birthday, and Susie ran all the way.

 

“I’m so anxious to see my doll house!” cried Susie.

 

But, here comes the sad part of the story. I’ll make it as short as I can, though.

 

When Susie reached her house she saw her papa sitting out on the front porch. He was all scratched up, and one of his ears was bent⁴ over backward, and his white fur was all dirt, and he looked very sad.

 

“Oh, papa!” cried Susie. “What has happened?”

 

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