Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk

<h2><SPAN name="DR_QUACK" id="DR_QUACK"></SPAN>DR. QUACK</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yes, Bobbie Redvest sang to me<br/></span> <span class="i2">Just now a little song,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Which, if you'll wait, I will relate<br/></span> <span class="i2">For it's not very long.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">He told me that the apple tree<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is pink and white with flowers,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And that the bees are buzzing there<br/></span> <span class="i2">All through the sunny hours.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>And, do you know, I don't think there's anything so lovely as an apple tree in bloom. For when I was a little boy I loved to lie on the grass and look up into the tree where the blossoms, pink and white, made it seem just like a big nosegay of flowers.</p> <p>"Tell me, little Robin," I said, "are you never worried about anything?" And the little red-breasted bird said no. "I'm as happy as the day is long," and then he flew off to the orchard to sing to Mrs. Robin.</p> <p>So I closed the window and went outside to see what Granddaddy Bullfrog was doing, for I had just heard him go "honk, honk, honk!" like an auto horn.</p> <p>Well, sure enough, there was the old gentleman frog, and who do you suppose was after him? You'd never guess, so I might as well tell you right away.</p> <p>Why, it was Dr. Quack, the wise old duck doctor. He was on his way to see Little Jack Rabbit, who had the whooping cough, and of course his mother, the dear old lady rabbit, was dreadfully worried.</p> <p>Well, pretty soon Dr. Quack stopped at the Old Bramble Patch, and with his little black bag, went inside to see the little sick bunny boy.</p> <p>And of course Mrs. Rabbit was dreadfully upset. She couldn't think of anything but her little bunny boy, and the tea kettle had burned a great hole in its bottom and she couldn't make a cup of tea for the doctor, although he was very fond of carrot coffee.</p> <p>"Let me see your tongue," said Dr. Quack. So the little rabbit put out his tongue, and then the wise duck doctor took out some little pills and three little white powders and told Mrs. Rabbit to give them to her little bunny every other minute and even oftener if he kept on coughing.</p> <p>And then Dr. Quack said good-by and went over to the old barnyard to see Henny Penny, who had the chickenpox.</p> <p>Well, after swallowing two powders and three and a half pills the little rabbit felt perfectly well. Wasn't that wonderful medicine the old duck doctor gave him? Well, I just guess it was, and if you ever get the whooping cough you call him up on the telephone, "Oh, oh, oh. Come quick, Duckville!" and he'll cure you in less than five hundred short minutes.</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />