Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes by Laura Rountree Smith
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tall chimney for Bunny, because he burns his paw in the candle."
Then Tippy Toes danced this way, and he danced that way, and said, "Oh, Ma, may I go with you to town to help buy the lamp?" Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Papa Cotton-Tail has to go to work. If I go to town and you go, too, who will tend the fire? Who will wash the dishes?" Tippy Toes wanted to go to town, but he was a good little Bunny, so he said, "Who will tend the fire? Whom do you suppose? Who will wash the dishes? Little Tippy Toes." So Mother Cotton-Tail put on her best sunbonnet and took her purse and shopping basket with her, and went off with Papa Cotton-Tail calling, "Good-bye, I will be home to supper at five o'clock sharp." Then Tippy Toes danced a little fairylike dance before the mirror and sang, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose." Tippy Toes said, "I have danced that dance before, and I sing that song very often, but the mirror always gives me the same answer. Who is Snubby Nose? I wonder if he has a real ugly little nose like I have?" Then Tippy Toes made up the fire and washed the dishes and began to get |
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