And in the next story you shall hear of an exciting adventure which
the two little rabbits had with a fretful porcupine.




STORY XXIII.

BUNNY AND THE FRETFUL PORCUPINE.


Oh, never tease a porcupine,
For reasons I'll relate,
He's like a cushion full of pins
That stand out stiff and straight.
And if you stand too close I know
He'll stick one in your little toe.

Well, that's just what Uncle Lucky did, and of course he got stuck
with one of those prickly, stickery porcupine needles and it was an
awful bother to get it out.

And the fretful porcupine laughed and this made Billy Bunny very
angry, and he took his popgun out of his knapsack and hit the
porcupine on the end of the nose with the cork bullet, and this made
the prickly animal run away.

And after that the two rabbits started off again in the Luckymobile
and by and by they came to a little village where they made lollypops