Little Thomas Woodchuck put out his tongue.

"I see! I see! That will do, Thomas," said Doctor Rabbit cheerfully.
"Your tongue is badly coated. Your pulse is pretty rapid, too."

Then Doctor Rabbit thumped all around over little Thomas Woodchuck,
just as the men doctors thump around over little boys and girls when
they are sick. Only Doctor Rabbit did not have to thump so long. He
could always find out in a hurry what was the trouble.

Doctor Rabbit looked very wisely over his fine gold glasses at all the
rest of the family who were standing about and said, "Mr. and Mrs.
Woodchuck, your son has some stomach trouble from eating too many of
those raw peanuts Farmer Roe has stored in his cob house!"

Well, sir, that was exactly the truth. They all wondered how Doctor
Rabbit knew what Thomas had eaten. But Doctor Rabbit just had his eyes
open, and put two and two together. He knew the peanuts were in Farmer
Roe's cob house because he had taken a few of them himself now and
then. And then he saw a lot of peanut hulls right under the cover of
the bed where little Thomas Woodchuck lay.

"Thomas," said Doctor Rabbit, laughing, "you must not eat so many of
those peanuts. Why, there will be none left for me!"

Then little Thomas Woodchuck and the whole family laughed, and they
all felt better. But Doctor Rabbit gave Thomas three big black pills
and told him to swallow them all at once. Thomas did, and they were so
bitter he tried to spit them out after he had swallowed them, but he
could not do it, of course, and so they went right to work curing him.