“What stories shall I write?” asked Bunny.

“You can write about the good times you and Bobtail and Billy have, playing in the woods,” said Mother Rabbit.

“What fun!” said Bunny.  “I am going to write a story in my book this very morning.”

So Bunny Rabbit ran back to the big stump.

But he did not know just how to write a story.

He had never written one before.

He thought, and thought, and thought.

Bobtail and Billy hopped up to see what their brother was doing.

“Come down and play with us,” said Bobtail.

But Bunny shook his head, and shook his long ears.

“Run away now,” he said; “I am going to write a story.”

“What story are you going to write?” asked Billy.

But Bunny did not answer.  He had just thought of something funny.

It was about the slide on the long hill beside the pond.

And about the way Billy slid down,—­right into the cold water.

Bobtail and Billy ran away and left Bunny alone on the stump.

Ho was very busy writing in his maple-leaf book.

When he finished the story, he hid his book in the hollow tree.

“No one will find it there,” he said to himself, as he hopped off toward home.

“I’ll write a story every day until the book is full.”

But one day I went walking in the woods.

I found the hollow tree, and I found the little maple-leaf book.

“Bunny Rabbit’s Diary” was the name of the book.

It was all full of stories about the three little rabbits that lived in the woods.

BILLY’S SLIDE

I

One morning in winter Bunny opened his eyes, just as the big round sun peeped up from behind the hills.

He jumped up and shook himself.

Then he pulled Bobtail’s long ears to wake him up.

Bobtail rolled out of bed, and that waked Billy.

“Oh, I am so sleepy!” said Billy.  “I don’t want to get up now.”

“Let’s run out and find something for breakfast,” said Bunny.  “I am as hungry as a bear.”

“Yes, let’s run out and find some breakfast,” said Bobtail.

“I don’t want to go far,” said Billy.  “It is too cold.”

The three little rabbits hopped off through the woods, hunting for something good to eat.

The ground was covered with snow and they could not find very much.

As they hopped along they were talking about what they could do to have some fun.

“Let’s make a long slide to-day,” said Bunny.

“Oh, let’s make a big pile of snowballs,” said Bobtail.

“Let’s make a snow rabbit,” said Billy.  “We can make it in front of our house.”

Bunny jumped up and down in the snow.  He made a snowball and threw it at Billy.