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 things ready to cook for supper.  He said, “I do wish I could go and find Snubby Nose; I wonder if Bunny and Susan can tell me about him.”

[Illustration:  “Tippy toes washed the dishes”]

Tippy Toes sat down in front of the clock and began to count the hours until Mother Cotton-Tail would come home.  He fell asleep and dreamed that he saw a little Bunny exactly like himself stuck fast in a snowdrift.  When he woke up it was five o’clock and Papa Cotton-Tail had just come home.

They got supper and waited, and waited, for Mother Cotton-Tail.  At exactly six o’clock she came in.  She was an hour late.

She came on the stroke of the clock.  She said, “I have been shopping all day.”

Mother Cotton-Tail took a wonderful lamp from her basket.  It had a pink shade and a tall chimney.

Papa Cotton-Tail said, “If you send the lamp to Bunny I must send something to Susan.  I will go to town to-morrow and get Susan a pair of spectacles.”

Tippy Toes said, “Oh Pa, may I go with you to town to-morrow?”

Papa Cotton-Tail said, “Who will roll out the cookies for Mother Cotton-Tail?  Who will run her little errands all day?”

Then Tippy Toes danced this way, and he danced that way, and sang,

     “Who will do errands?  Whom do you suppose? 
     Who will roll cookies?  Little Tippy Toes.”

So, they had a merry time at supper that evening and lighted the new lamp, and Papa Cotton-Tail read fairy tales.

Tippy Toes did not tell what the mirror had answered him.  He kept that as a secret.  He said to himself, “I do wonder who Snubby Nose is!”

CHAPTER III

Next day Tippy Toes woke up early and cried out, “Oh, Mother Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up!  Oh, Papa Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up!”

Sure enough it was time for Bunnies to wake up because it was sunrise.

Tippy Toes helped to get breakfast.  He went to the well to draw water.  He began to sing a little fairy song,

     “Ding, dong bell,
     Pussy’s in the well.”

“Poor Pussy, I wonder if she is still in the well,” he said.  He peeped down to look into the well.

Papa Cotton-Tail called, “Hurry, hurry, it is time for breakfast.”

Then Tippy Toes drew a bucket full of water and said, “Is poor Pussy still in the well?”