Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk

<h2><SPAN name="PHOTOGRAPHER_CRANE" id="PHOTOGRAPHER_CRANE"></SPAN>PHOTOGRAPHER CRANE</h2> <p>Now, wasn't it too bad that Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel broke up the May Party! You remember they were all having their pictures taken by the Crane Photographer, who had just pushed his head under the big black cloth and was telling them all to look pleasant and not to giggle, when that dreadful fox and that cruel weasel jumped through the Old Rail Fence.</p> <p>Well, of course, the Crane Photographer at first didn't know why everybody was running away, but when he pulled his head out from under the big black cloth, he knew. Oh, my, yes! When he saw Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel he didn't have to ask a single question.</p> <p>"Now you can take our pictures," they said, "and if you don't we'll eat you up!"</p> <p>So the poor Crane Photographer stuck his head under the cloth, but, oh, dear me! He was so frightened that his great long legs knocked together and spoiled the picture.</p> <p>"Look here, Mr. Crane," growled Danny Fox, "you take a good picture or you'll never take another," and that wicked old fox grinned and showed all his long white teeth.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Oh, please don't bite me, Danny Fox.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I'll make a picture with my box,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And have it framed in plush and gold,<br/></span> <span class="i0">So let me live till I am old."<br/></span></div> </div> <p>"All right," answered the two bad robbers, Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel, and as soon as the poor crane had taken their pictures, he folded up his camera and started back for Rabbitville.</p> <p>"When will those pictures be finished?" asked Mr. Wicked Weasel, and he crept up behind that poor frightened crane and tickled his bare knee.</p> <p>"Just as soon as I can get them done," he answered, and he tripped over a stone and almost dropped his camera box.</p> <p>Well, after that Danny Fox went back to his den on the hillside and Mr. Wicked Weasel went home, but, of course, the May party was all over. Nobody wanted to come back that day.</p> <p>"Oh, dear me," said Little Jack Rabbit, "I wish the Miller's Boy would shoot Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel."</p> <p>"Don't say such things," said Mrs. Rabbit. "You must keep your ears and eyes open, and be ever on the lookout for these two bad robbers. But you mustn't wish that somebody will kill them," and the good lady rabbit bustled about and pretty soon she took out of the oven some nice hot cookies and gave two or three, and maybe four to the little rabbit, and after that the little canary bird in her cage began to sing:</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"I'm safe from every harm,<br/></span> <span class="i2">In my golden house.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Black Cat cannot catch me<br/></span> <span class="i2">Like a little mouse."<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />