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In this charming tale geared for young audiences, a chocolate bunny finds his dreams have come true when he is chosen to be part of a toy store's elaborate Easter display. He makes some new friends and enjoys the beautiful scenery as the customers arrive to ooh and aah at the adorable vignette.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 février 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776676774
Langue	English

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THE STORY OF A CANDY RABBIT
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LAURA LEE HOPE

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The Story of a Candy Rabbit First published in 1920 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-677-4 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-678-1 © 2015 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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Chapter I - Is He in Fairyland? Chapter II - The Rabbit's New Home Chapter III - The Bad Cat Chapter IV - Up in the Air Chapter V - The Organ Grinder Chapter VI - The Peddler's Basket Chapter VII - In the Bathtub Chapter VIII - In a Wheelbarrow Chapter IX - At the Party Chapter X - In a Boy's Pocket
Chapter I - Is He in Fairyland?
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The Candy Rabbit sat up on his hind legs and looked around. Then herubbed his pink glass eyes with his front paws. He rubbed his eyes once,he rubbed them twice, he rubbed them three times.
"No, I am not asleep! I am not dreaming," said the Candy Rabbit,speaking to himself in a low voice. "I am wide awake, but what strangethings I see! I wonder what it all means!"
On one side of the Candy Rabbit was a large egg. It was larger than anyegg the Candy Rabbit had ever seen, and there was a little glass windowin one end of the egg.
"This is very strange," said the sweet chap, rubbing his eyes again."Who ever heard of an egg with a window in it? I wonder if any one livesin that egg? It is not large enough for a house, of course; but still,some very little folk might stay in it. I'll take a look through thatwindow."
The Candy Rabbit gave three hops and stood closer to the large egg. Itglittered and sparkled in the light as newly fallen snow glitters underthe moon. The Candy Rabbit looked in through the glass window, and whathe saw inside the egg made him wonder more and more.
For he saw a church and some houses, a path leading over a little brookof water, and on the bank of the brook stood a little boy fishing.
"Well, I do declare!" exclaimed the Candy Rabbit. "Think of all thosethings inside an egg—a church, a house and a little boy! I wonder whathas happened to me! Yesterday I was on the toy counter, with the CalicoClown and the Monkey on a Stick, and to-day I seem to be in Fairyland. Iwonder if this really is Fairyland? I guess I'd better look around somemore."
He glanced again through the little glass window in the egg, and hethought he saw the little boy on the bank of the brook smiling at him.And the Candy Rabbit smiled back. Then the Bunny turned around and hesaw, near him, a big chocolate egg. It was covered with twists andcurlicues of sugar and candy, and in the end of this egg, also, was aglass window.
"Well, this certainly is surprising!" exclaimed the Candy Rabbit. "Iwonder what I can see through that window!"
He looked and saw a little duck and a little chicken inside thechocolate egg. The little chicken was on one end of a small seesaw, andthe little duck was on the other end. And as the Candy Rabbit lookedthrough the glass window, he saw the seesaw begin to go up and down.
The Candy Rabbit shook his head. Once more he rubbed his paws over hispink glass eyes.
"I have heard of many strange things," he said to himself. "The SawdustDoll told some of her queer adventures, and so did the White RockingHorse and the Bold Tin Soldier. But never, in all my life, did I eversee a chocolate egg with a glass window and a little chicken and a duckinside seesawing and teeter-tautering! I think I had better go to thedoctor's, something must be the matter with me!"
"What's the matter with you?" suddenly asked a voice behind the CandyRabbit. The sweet chap turned so quickly that he almost cracked one ofhis sugary ears. He saw, just back of him, a real fuzzy, furry rabbit.At least the rabbit seemed real, for his ears slowly moved backward andforward, his head turned from side to side, and, every now and then, hewould rise on his hind legs and then crouch down again.
"What's the matter with you?" asked this Fuzzy Bunny of the CandyRabbit.
"I—I really don't know what is the matter," was the answer.
"You seem to be all right," went on the other rabbit, as he slowlyturned his head and bobbed up and down.
"Yes, I seem to be," said the Candy Rabbit, feeling his head and bodyas far as he could reach, as if to make sure no part of him was broken,or lost, or out of place. "But can you tell me this?" he asked. "Alittle while ago I was on the toy counter of this store with the CalicoClown and the Monkey on a Stick. And now I seem to be in Fairyland. Tellme, am I dreaming, or is this really Fairyland, where eggs have windowsin them and hold little chickens and ducks who seesaw?"
The other Rabbit smiled, and kept on bobbing up and down, waving hisears and turning his head from side to side.
"Oh, please stop that and answer me if you can," begged the CandyRabbit, in rather a sharp voice. "Why do you do that?"
"I have to," was the answer. "I have to keep on doing this until I rundown."
"Run down where?" asked the Candy Rabbit.
"I mean until the clock-work inside me runs down," explained the FuzzyRabbit. "You see, I am wound up, and when I am wound I have to rise upand stoop down on my hind legs. I have to twist my head and wiggle myears. I'll go on this way for half an hour more. But don't let thatbother you. I can still talk, and I'm glad you're here. You're somecompany. These eggs never say anything," and with his ears he pointed tothe chocolate one and the glittery one, each of which had glass windows.
"Ask him how he likes it here," suggested a voice on the other side ofthe Candy Rabbit. Turning, he saw a big chocolate chap, almost likehimself, except that this Rabbit was very dark in color.
The Chocolate Rabbit waved his ears in a kind way at the Candy Bunny,and went on:
"How do you like it here?"
The Candy Rabbit gave another look around, and the more he looked themore certain he was that he was in Fairyland. Over at one end of whatseemed to be a table he saw a little chicken harnessed to a tiny wagon,made from what appeared to be an egg shell, and a little doll sat in theegg-shell carriage, driving the chicken with little silk ribbon horsereins.
Turning around, so that he might not miss anything, the sweet fellow sawa large basket of flowers, and, nestled in among the blossoms, were someCandy Rabbits like himself, only smaller. Over in one corner were piledsome cards, with pretty pictures on them, and near them was a smallbasket, filled with what seemed to be green grass, in which were hiddenmany small candy eggs.
"Yes, this surely must be Fairyland, and I know I shall like it here,"said the Candy Rabbit, speaking half aloud. "But how did I get here, andwhere are the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick?"
"Oh, they are not so far away," answered the Fuzzy Rabbit. "And you arenot really in Fairyland, though this does seem like it, I suppose," andhis eyes roved over the gay and pretty scene.
"Then where am I?" asked the Candy Rabbit again. "If this isn'tFairyland, where am I?"
The Chocolate Rabbit grinned.
"You are on the Easter Novelty Counter," was the Fuzzy Rabbit's answer.
"Where in the world is that?" asked the Candy Rabbit. "Is it anywherenear the North Pole Workshop of Santa Claus?"
The Chocolate Rabbit gave a loud laugh.
"He doesn't even know his own store," said this dark-complexioned chap."Why, my dear fellow," he went on, "the Easter Novelty Counter is justaround the corner from the toy section, where you have lived so long.The Calico Clown, the Monkey on a Stick and the other friends you speakof are there. You are not very far away from them."
"That's good," said the Candy Rabbit. "But why am I on the EasterNovelty Counter, and how did I get here?"
"You were put here because this is Easter time," answered the ChocolateRabbit.
"But I don't remember coming here," said the Candy Rabbit.
"No," said the Fuzzy Rabbit with the clock-work inside him, which madehim turn about and bow, "I dare say not. You were asleep when one of thegirl clerks from your counter brought you over here. But we are glad tohave you among us."
Just then it began to get light, for all this talk had taken place inthe night, when only a dim light burned in the toy store. And with thecoming of morning the clerks arrived, and also the customers to buyEaster novelties and other things.
The Fuzzy Rabbit stopped waving his ears and became quiet. The CandyRabbit no longer talked to the Chocolate Bunny. A girl clerk led a lady,in a warm fur coat, over toward the counter.
"Here are some fine Easter presents," said the girl. "We have rabbits ofall kinds."
"I want a large one for a little girl," said the lady. "I promised tosend Madeline a nice Bunny." And then the Candy Rabbit felt himselfbeing picked up and looked at.
"Oh, I wonder what is going to happen?" he thought.
The lady in the fur cloak turned the Candy Rabbit around and around, andeven upside down, looking carefully at him.
Chapter II - The Rabbit's New Home
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"Goodness me!" said the sweet chap to himself, as the lady swung him toone side so she might look at his eyes better. "This is worse than beingon a merry-go-round! I am feeling quite dizzy! I hope I am not going tobe seasick, as the Lamb on Wheels thought she was going to be when thesailor bought her."
But the Candy Rabbit was not made ill. The lady stopped turning himaround and around and said to the girl clerk:
"This Rabbit seems to be just what I want for an Easter present. I'lltake him."