 Chapter number 34 of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Lola Janie. Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog by David Corey. Chapter 34 Billy Bunny and Jenny Muskrat. Well I played pinocchio with Uncle Lucky Left Hindfoot last evening and it was so late when I got home that I overslept myself this morning. And maybe I'd have slept all day if Robbie Redbreast hadn't come to my window and told me that Billy Bunny was reading a letter which I told you about in yesterday's story and that every time he turned a page he laughed harder than ever. Well I was so curious to know what he was laughing at that I told Robbie Redbreast to fly back to him and look over his shoulder and see what was in the letter while I hurried and dressed as fast as I could. And when I was all ready to go into the friendly forest where the little rabbit was I saw him coming towards me with the letter in his hand and the little Robin perched upon his knapsack. Good morning he said and handed me the letter and now you shall hear what was written to Mr. William Bunny, Briar Patch, Old Snake Fence Corner, USA, care of Uncle Sam. My dear Billy Bunny, just a few lines from your old friend the circus elephant to tell you that he is coming to see you as soon as he gets over the measles. If you've never had the measles dear Billy Bunny, don't get them for they are dreadful things for there's so many of them. Please give my love to Mr. Lucky left hind foot and tell him as soon as I'm well I'll be back in his circus your friend Ellie and as soon as I read the letter the little rabbit put it in his pocket and hopped away and by and by he came to a little stone house by a river and before I go any further I'll just whisper to you how I know all this. You see the little Robin told me all about it for he and I are great friends and his nest is in the old apple tree just under my window. Well pretty soon after looking all around Billy Bunny knocked on the door of the little stone house and in a few minutes it was opened by a nice lady muskrat whose name was Jenny Ava. How do you do little rabbit? She said and then she invited him in and gave him a cookie made out of carrot seeds and pumpkin flour and after that he showed her the letter from his friend the circus elephant and just then all of a sudden the front door flew open and in came the miller's dog and oh dear me Mrs. Jenny Ava muskrat forgot all about her society manners and ran down the back stairs into the river and the little rabbit forgot to say goodbye and hid himself in a big hat box where she kept her last year's Easter bonnet and then what do you suppose the miller's dog did? Why? He began to sing. Old Mrs. Muskrat jumped into the river splashity splashity splash and little boy rabbit jumped into the box that held her best bonnet and trampled upon it. Mashity mashity mash. And in the next story you shall know what the miller's dog did when he stopped singing that is if Robbie red breast isn't too frightened to look into the window and tell me all about it. End of chapter 34. Chapter number 35 of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recorded by Lola Janie. Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog by David Corey. Chapter number 35 Billy Bunny and the Millers Dog. After the miller's dog stopped singing as I told you in the story before this he poked his nose into the hat box where Billy Bunny had hidden himself and said in a deep growly voice come out of there or I will growl and bite the bonnet that Mrs. Muskrat wears for best and the purple flowers on it and then she'll think it's you who did this dreadful unkind deed and never speak to you again or you with cookies feed. Goodness me but you are a very poor sort of a poet said the little rabbit peeping out of the hat box your poetry is dreadful and this made the miller's dog so ashamed of himself that he couldn't wag his tail or even bark no sir he couldn't do a thing but slink out of the door and close it so softly that it didn't pinch his tail hardly at all laughed the little rabbit did you ever see such a silly dog and neither did I and neither did you I know well after a little while Mrs. Jenny Ava Muskrat came up the back stairs from the river where she had gone in the last story you remember and wasn't she glad that nothing more had happened if you had jumped into the other hat box she said you would have spilt my next year's Easter bonnet and that would have been too dreadful for anything and wasn't the little rabbit glad well I guess he was twice over and maybe three times and after that he said goodbye and hopped away and after he had traveled for a long long ways he came to the field where his old friend the scarecrow lived have you ever been asked the little rabbit and he took a lollipop out of his knapsack and offered it to the scarecrow but he didn't want it haven't you got a cigar he asked I haven't smoked forever so long I'm sorry said Billy buddy I don't think I have any really and truly cigars here's a chocolate one if that will do and he handed it to his friend the old clothesman but the old clothesman couldn't smoke it at all although he tried the very best he could and pretty soon it began to rain and the chocolate became soft and sticky and the little bunny all wet so he said I guess I'll crawl into a hollow stump if I can find one and it didn't take him long for he hopped away to the woods nearby and the first thing he saw was an old stump so he hopped inside and no sooner was he safely out of the ring than a voice said what are you doing in my hollow stump who are you anyway why didn't you knock on this old wood block if you really want to stay and in the next story I'll tell you who it was that said this end of chapter 35 chapter number 36 of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Lola Janey Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog by David Corey chapter number 36 Billy Bunny and the wood chuck you remember in the last story that just as Billy Bunny hopped into the hollow stump a voice said what are you doing in here I came in to get out of the wet answered the little rabbit and then the voice replied what is it raining I want you an umbrella and an old woodchuck opened a little door in the side of the stump and winked at Billy Bunny that's very kind of you said the little rabbit and he opened his knapsack and gave the woodchuck a nice lollipop and after that the woodchuck said I think you'd better stay here with me until the rain is over don't you think so and Billy Bunny said yes for the woodchuck was very nice and had such good manners that the little rabbit felt quite at home but oh dear me it began to rain so hard right then and there that the water just poured into the old hollow stump and pretty soon it was very uncomfortable so the woodchuck said now don't you ever tell anybody where I'm going to take you for it's my very own house and I never let anybody know just where I do live you see so many people are after me some with guns and some with sharp teeth and claws that I have to be very careful so the little rabbit promised and then he followed the woodchuck through the little door and down a long passage until they came to a nice large comfortable room now this is where I live said the woodchuck and he went over to the cupboard and took out a carrot candy gumdrop and gave it to Billy Bunny and then he lighted a big cigar and sat down in his old armchair and smoked and all the time they could hear the rain pattering on the grass overhead for it's wonderful how you can hear all sorts of sounds when you're underground and have big ears like a rabbit you know now I'll tell you a story said the old woodchuck after he had blown some lovely round rings of smoke into the air once upon a time not so very long ago a band of tiny fairies lived in the woodland near and often I would hear them singing soft and low when all was dark and quiet and the moon shone bright and clear so one evening I stole softly out of the hollow stump and found them dancing merrily with tiny skip and jump and just as I was going to say how do you do the fairy queen began to scream and then away she flew and then her tiny subjects took fright and ran off too and now I never see them more I dancing near my old stunk door that's too bad said the little rabbit for he was so interested in what the old woodchuck was saying that he had forgotten all about his lollipop and had dropped it on the floor and in the next story he'll pick up his lollipop and eat it because I hate to have him lose it don't you end of chapter 36 chapter number 37 of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Lola Janie Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog by David Corey chapter number 37 Billy Bunny and Little Peony let me stop for a moment and think where I left off last oh now I remember Billy Bunny was in the old woodchuck hollow stump and it was raining oh my yes cats and dogs as they say in grown-ups stories so we'll say kittens and puppies well after a while the rain stopped and the little rabbit said goodbye and hopped away and pretty soon not very long a little bird began to sing down the shady forest trail over the hill and through the veil Billy Bunny hops along with a whistle and a song and if you have never heard a rabbit whistle like a bird you must ask each little rabbit if he has the whistling habit who's singing asked Billy Bunny and he took his silver policemen's whistle out of his knapsack and blew on it so hard that the little bird began to cry oh dear oh dear will you whistle my ear off and then of course the little rabbit stopped for he didn't want to hurt that little dear bird no sorry ma'am who are you he asked and the little bird replied I'm pee-wee the littlest bird in the whole friendly forest what do you look like said the little rabbit curiously gazing here and there and everywhere and behind a tree and under a stone I've never seen a pee-wee and then that little bird flew down from a tree and Billy Bunny saw the tiniest little bird he had ever seen why it wasn't much larger than a butterfly goodness but you're small said Billy Bunny are you so small that you don't like lollipops of course the little bird said no and so would you no matter how small you were but when she tried to fly away with the lollipop she couldn't no sorry ma'am wasn't that too bad so the little rabbit gave her some sweet cracker crumbs instead and after that he hopped away looking for another adventure and it wasn't long before he had one for just as he was hopping across a fallen log that made a narrow bridge over a brook a little fish swam up to the top of the water and said here's a letter from your friend the whale and he held up in his mouth a blue envelope I guess it was made of some kind of waterproof paper for it wasn't the least bit damp and when Billy Bunny opened it he found a small coral ring inside and in the letter it said this ring is for you Billy Bunny the pretty mermaid asked me to send it to you so here it is please tell little fish that you have received it and that it fits you perfectly and then the whale signed himself your great big hearted friend the whale end of chapter 37 chapter 38 of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bolfrog this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Larry Wilson Billy Bunny and Uncle Bolfrog by David Corey Billy Bunny and Old Mother Magpie Uncle Bolfrog sings a song that is never very long all he says is chunker chunk and he splashes in Kerplunk and the little fishes swim oh so fast away from him if they didn't don't you think he would eat him in a wink now who do you suppose was singing this song why a little tadpole named Tattie Legs and it made Uncle Bolfrog quite cross for he didn't like tadpoles anyway and Tattie Legs wasn't very polite as you can see now swim away said the old gentleman frog and he looked angrily at Tattie Legs now swim away or I'll swallow you and maybe your cousin and your aunt if they're around so the little tadpole swam away and after a while Old Uncle Bolfrog saw Billy Bunny not very far away he was talking to Mrs. Cow about the clover patch you see Mrs. Cow was very fond of clover and so was the little rabbit and he knew that Mrs. Cow could eat maybe 347 times as much clover as he could and so he was afraid she might eat up the whole patch and leave nothing for anybody else please don't eat all the clover tops mother wants to preserve some for the winter don't you worry replied Mrs. Cow as she whisked a big forcefly off her side with her long tail don't you worry and don't you fret there'll be some clover blossoms yet so the little rabbit felt ever so much better and hopped away and by and by came across Old Mother Magpie and he wasn't a bit pleased or she was always finding fault with him and everybody else for that matter yes Old Mother Magpie made lots of trouble and Billy Bunny had never liked her but he couldn't get away without her seeing him although he tried his best good morning Billy Bunny said the old lady Magpie and she raised her bonnet so she could see him better for the brim was half over her left eye good morning replied the little rabbit I'm sorry but I'm in a dreadful hurry and he hopped away so fast that he left his shadow a mile behind him gracious me exclaimed Old Mother Magpie that Bunny doesn't like me very much I guess yes you don't have to guess again cried a voice and parson crow cod and hod and this made the old lady magpie so angry that she flew away to tell Barney Owl that she was a very much abused person but here we are at the end of this book and so we shall have to jump to the next which I will call Billy Bunny and Uncle Lucky Left Hindfoot end of chapter 38 end of Billy Bunny and Uncle Bullfrog by David Corey