Snubby Nose cried so loudly that they did not hear the “patter, patter, patter” of little feet.  They did not know that Tippy Toes was coming down the staircase.  Tippy Toes came dancing into the room, singing at the top of his lungs,

     “Who is so ugly?  Nobody knows.” 
     The mirror answers, “Snubby Nose?”

Then for one single minute Snubby Nose was still.  He looked at Tippy Toes.  He looked him up and down.

Tippy Toes kissed him on both cheeks and nearly hugged the life out of him.

Bunny and Susan and Grandpa Grumbles said, “They are as much alike as two peas.  They both have ugly noses!”

When Snubby Nose heard them speak of noses he cried and he screamed and he howled!

Tippy Toes said, “Don’t care about your nose.  People know you wherever you go.”

Snubby Nose pricked up his ears and asked, “Don’t you mind about your ugly nose at all.”

Tippy Toes danced this way and he danced that way and answered,

     “I don’t mind noses, for you see,
     I am polite as I can be.”

Then Snubby Nose stopped crying and hugged Tippy Toes and said, “I am so glad to find you, Tippy Toes.  How do you make up those funny little rhymes.  They tickle my eardrums.”

All this time Grandpa Grumbles was thumping on the floor with his umbrella.  He made such a noise that Bunny said, “Hush, listen, Grandpa Grumbles has something to say.”

Susan said, “Hush, be still, Grandpa Grumbles wants to speak.”

At last Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes stopped talking and dancing, and they all listened to Grandpa Grumbles.  He said,

     “I want you both to come and stay,
     With Grandpa Grumbles a year and a day.”

Tippy Toes answered, “Thank you, Grandpa Grumbles, I will come and visit you for a year and a day,” but Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled.

I don’t know what would have happened next, but Grandpa Grumbles went outside, and opened wide his green cotton umbrella, and invited Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes to step inside.

They did so, and in less time than it takes to tell it they were sailing away with Grandpa Grumbles in his green cotton umbrella!

[Illustration:  “They were sailing away with grandpa Grumbles”]

Bunny and Susan said, “How will he ever get along with Snubby Nose for a year and a day?  We wish Tippy Toes was back.  He was such a good little fellow.”

Susan picked up the pink wrapper and Bunny picked up the pink cup and saucer.  Bunny Cotton-Tail said, “We will have a long quiet evening alone.”

“Don’t be too sure of that,” sang the wind as it whistled down the chimney.

Susan said, “I will put on my new spectacles and we will read by the new lamp.”

Then the most surprising thing happened!

The Seventeen Little Bears came tumbling in the doors and windows!  They came in laughing and shouting,