A SURPRISE FOR MRS BUNNY.

Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 68

A SURPRISE FOR MRS BUNNY.

Mrs Beatrice Bunny was going to have a birthday, and a birthday in the Bunny family was a great event. ButVhis particular birthday of Mrs Burnet’s was causing the four Bunny boys a great deal of worry. You see, this Bunny family was the poorest of all the families' in Bunnyland, and the Bunny boys simply hadn’t a brass farthing between them to spend on a present for their dear darling wee mother. So they put their four heads together and thought and thought and thought! At last Buster Bunny—he was the eldest —said: “I’ve an idea! We four are the best at school at acting and that stuff, so let’s ask father if he will teach us to act a play, which you shall write, Percy.

Then, on mother’s birthday, we can act it to her, and I am sure she’ll like it as much as a present.” They all thought it was quite a brainwave, except little Frankie; but it was only because he said he’d rather play hopscotch than learn his part! So the four Bunny boys went off to their father and told him their plan. “ I think it’s a bright idea,” he said. “ But Percy need not write a play. 1 have got one I wrote last Christmas, and it has a part for you all, and it isn’t very long.” “Good old father!” they all said in chorus. “We knew you'd help!” And every evening after school, away up in the attic room, so that their little mother wouldn’t hear, Mr Bunny heard his sons in their parts. When the day of the birthday came and they performed before their little mother and her friends, you can’t imagine how pleased she was! In fact, she was so pleased with their clever acting and the trouble they had taken, that she just cried and cried, even while she was laughing—you know, the way some mothers do! —Home Chat.