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[Illustration: "BRING THE CAMPHOR! BRING THE SMELLING SALTS!"]

SNUBBY NOSE

AND

TIPPY TOES

BY

LAURA ROUNTREE SMITH

1917, 1922

CONTENTS

SNUBBY NOSE AND TIPPY TOES

CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII



MORE COTTON TAIL STORIES

CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV



ILLUSTRATIONS

"'BRING THE CAMPHOR! BRING THE SMELLING SALTS!'"

"GRANDPA GRUMBLES HAD NOT SEEN DR. COTTONTAIL FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS"

"TIPPY TOES WASHED THE DISHES"

"'MY NAME IS NOT SNUBBY NOSE'"

"HE WAS SWEEPING THE CHIMNEY WITH HIS LONG, BEAUTIFUL TAIL"

"THEY WERE SAILING AWAY WITH GRANDPA GRUMBLES"

"BUSHY-TAIL WENT SPLASH, DASH, INTO THE LAKE"

"'I WILL TUCK THEM IN MY SLEIGH'"

"SOON THE CIRCUS COTTON-TAILS CAME IN VIEW"

"BUNNY AND SUSAN WERE SITTING BY THE FIRE"



SNUBBY NOSE AND TIPPY TOES





CHAPTER I


Bunny and Susan Cotton-Tail sat by the fire one winter evening warming
their paws.

"What's that?" asked Bunny.

"What's that?" asked Susan.

They went to the window and saw a very little Bunny stuck fast in a
snowdrift.

"Help, help," cried Bunny, "I will get the snow-shovel."

"Help, help," cried Susan, "I will get the wheelbarrow."

Bunny and Susan went out to shovel the little Bunny out of the
snowdrift. Bunny said, "You dear little fellow, how did you get stuck
fast in the snowdrift?"

Susan looked hard over her spectacles and said, "Why, it is our own
dear grandchild, Snubby Nose."

Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled! Bunny Cotton-Tail
shoveled as fast as he could, and in sixteen minutes he had Snubby Nose
out of the snowdrift. Susan put him in the wheelbarrow and wheeled him
to the house. All the time Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he
howled!

Susan said, "Go and get the big tub and we will give Snubby Nose a hot
bath."

Bunny got the tub and some warm water and he and Susan gave Snubby Nose
a hot bath. They rubbed him dry with a soft towel, and all the time
Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled!

Just at this very minute Grandpa Grumbles came in shaking the snow off
his fur and whiskers. He shook his green cotton umbrella. He came in
grumbling,

     "It's noisy here, I do declare,
     I just came out to take the air."

Snubby Nose stopped his noise and stared at Grandpa Grumbles. Bunny and
Susan said, "Sit down by the fire, Grandpa, and warm your paws."
Grandpa Grumbles sat down.

Snubby Nose cried, "Grandpa Grumbles, tell us a story, please tell us a
story."

Bunny Cotton-Tail said, in a whisper, "Please don't mention
_noses_."

Susan Cotton-Tail said, "Please don't mention _snowdrifts_."

Grandpa Grumbles was wet and cold, so he grumbled right out loud, "I
will tell about as many _noses_ and _snowdrifts_ as I please
in this story!" Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled!

Susan took him up in her arms. She carried him to bed and sang him a
nonsense song. By and by Snubby Nose fell asleep. Susan went back
downstairs and found Grandpa Grumbles asleep by the fire.

Bunny said, "I wonder what makes him grumble so much?"

Susan said, "T wonder what happened to Snubby Nose. He has such a funny
little nose!"

_Then the most surprising thing happened!_

As they sat talking, "thump, bump" was heard, and Snubby Nose fell down
stairs! He fell right on his ugly little nose and broke it!

"Get the camphor! Get the smelling salts! Help, help!" cried Bunny and
Susan.

Grandpa Grumbles woke, up and cried,

     "Someone has a sad mishap,
