THE MILKY WAY
Nowlet me see where we left off in the last story. Sometimes I get all mixed up, and perhaps I’d never get things right if I hadn’t made a book out of these stories, so that I can look back and see whether it was Uncle John Hare or the Big Brown Bear, or the Yellow Dog Tramp, or Aunt Columbia who had to stop doing something because I didn’t have any more room.
Little Jack Shook Paws With the Great Bear.Little Jack Rabbit and Mr. Wicked Wolf.Page 45
Little Jack Shook Paws With the Great Bear.
Little Jack Rabbit and Mr. Wicked Wolf.Page 45
Well, here we are. The Yellow Dog Tramp had just posted his photograph to his dear old mother way up in New Hampshire, and after he had thanked the postoffice lady, who was an old maid duck, he jumped into the sleigh and said:
“Hurry on, you Reindeer,Make the snowflakes fly,Faster, faster, faster,Don’t you balk or shy!”
“Hurry on, you Reindeer,Make the snowflakes fly,Faster, faster, faster,Don’t you balk or shy!”
“Hurry on, you Reindeer,Make the snowflakes fly,Faster, faster, faster,Don’t you balk or shy!”
“Hurry on, you Reindeer,
Make the snowflakes fly,
Faster, faster, faster,
Don’t you balk or shy!”
And then you should have seen how those Reindeer went. Well, sir, they went so fast that pretty soon their feet hardly touched the earth, and then they didn’t touch at all, and then, oh, me, oh, my! They rose right up in the air just like a low sailing rocket, over the treetops and over the steeples, over the houses and over the peoples. Goodness me!
There goes my typewriter again making up poetry and not putting it into verses, and if it does it again I’m going to change the ribbon and get one that is red, white and blue. My typewriter must show its color as well as a man!
Well, pretty soon, the old gentleman rabbit began to get uneasy, for he wasn’t used to sailing through the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer. “What do you think’s going to happen!” he asked anxiously.
“Oh, don’t worry, Uncle John,” answered the little rabbit. “I’ve often seen pictures of Santa Claus riding through the air in his sleigh.”
And this quite comforted the old gentleman bunny, you know, and he began to smile and the Yellow Dog Tramp barked two times and a half, and after that they came to a snowy road right in the sky.
And the hoofs of the Reindeer made a lovely tinkling noise as they beat on the silvery frozen path. But of course the little rabbits didn’t know they were sliding over the Milky Way.
No, indeed. And they didn’t know it was all frozen over, either, and neither would I have known this if a little snowbird hadn’t told me.
Well, after a while, they came to a place where the Great Bear and the Little Bear lived. It was way up in the Star Country, you see, and of course it was all very strange.
But the Reindeer seemed to know the way, and so Uncle John Hare just let them go. And then the Great Bear, who sat on a piece of ice that had five sharp points just like a star, said:
“Mr. John Hare, I’m glad to see you.” And then the Little Bear, who also sat on a five-pointed piece of ice, said: “I’m glad to see you, Little Jack Rabbit!”
And then the Reindeer stopped, for theyhad been going around and around the two bears all the time, you know, and the two little rabbits hopped out of the sleigh, and into the next story.
Up in the skyEver so highThe snowflakes crinkle and winkle,And the Moon Man winksWith a couple of blinks,And the little stars tinkle, tinkle.
Up in the skyEver so highThe snowflakes crinkle and winkle,And the Moon Man winksWith a couple of blinks,And the little stars tinkle, tinkle.
Up in the skyEver so highThe snowflakes crinkle and winkle,And the Moon Man winksWith a couple of blinks,And the little stars tinkle, tinkle.
Up in the sky
Ever so high
The snowflakes crinkle and winkle,
And the Moon Man winks
With a couple of blinks,
And the little stars tinkle, tinkle.