"Oh, oh!" he said to himself. "Now I can play a joke on Bobby Gray
Squirrel.

"I am going to tie a string to this acorn, and when Bobby tries to pick
it up I shall pull it away from him."

He told Bobtail and Billy about the joke he was going to play on the
gray squirrel.

"Ho, ho!" laughed Billy.

"Ha, ha!" laughed Bobtail.

"We must hurry and finish our breakfast," said Bunny.

"Bobby will be out hunting for nuts very soon."

In a few minutes the three rabbits had finished their breakfast.

Then Bunny hopped away to find a string he had seen under the oak tree.

It was the same string they had used to fly their kite.

The string had held the kite to the branch for a long time.

Then one day North Wind came again and tried to carry it away.

He puffed and puffed, and at last the branch let go of the string.

The kite flew up in the air and far away, but the string dropped to the