"He's one of my Easter presents," answered Madeline. "Herbert and I have
just finished hunting for our baskets."

"Did you find them all, and all the eggs?" inquired Dick. "Dorothy and I
got up early to hunt for ours."

"I think I found every one," replied Herbert. "But last year, I
remember, I missed one big candy egg, and I didn't find it until a week
later."

The children showed each other their holiday presents, and the Candy
Rabbit was much admired. Dorothy and Dick took him up in their hands so
they might see him better.

"Goodness! I hope they don't drop me," thought the Rabbit. "There isn't
any rubber ball here for me to fall on, as there was in the store. I
certainly hope they don't drop me!"

But Dorothy and Dick were very careful, and, after they had looked at
and admired the Rabbit, he was put down on a chair not far from
Dorothy's Sawdust Doll. The Candy Rabbit kept wishing that the children
would go out of the room for a while, so he might talk to the Doll, whom
he had not seen for a long time.

And, after a while, Madeline's mother called the children to show them
an Easter present which she had received. Out of the room trooped the
four children, leaving the Candy Rabbit and the Sawdust Doll together,
with no one to watch what they said or did.

"Now I have a chance to talk to you!" exclaimed the Sawdust Doll. "I've