me to visit us
again."

Soon the Seventeen Little Bears were tucked safely into the wagon and
Doctor Cotton-Tail took them home.

"Bless my buttons," said Susan, "you did not finish your story Grandpa
Grumbles."

"My fur and whiskers," said Bunny, "I should like to visit your Toy
Shop!"

Grandpa Grumbles said,

"At night I always shake my head,
'Tis time for all to go to bed."

The Cotton-Tail family knew that it was no use to tease, so they went
merrily to bed.

Snubby Nose set his little alarm clock. He set it at four o'clock in
the morning. He said, kissing Tippy Toes good night, "We must get up
early in the morning and make a garden for Bunny and Susan."

CHAPTER XI

"Tinkle, tinkle" went the alarm clock next morning. Snubby Nose put his
paw on it so it would not ring too loudly. He whispered to Tippy Toes,
"Get up, it is time to make the garden."

They took the seeds Grandpa Grumbles had thrown from his umbrella. They
planted the seeds in even rows. They worked so fast, they had the
garden planted and were back in bed by eight o'clock.

Grandpa Grumbles woke up next. He went downstairs and out of doors. He
saw a little garden all planted in even rows. He shook his green cotton
umbrella and said,

"Radishes it is time to grow,
For spring has come again you know."

_Then the most surprising thing happened!_

The radishes began to peep up and show their little green heads.

Grandpa Grumbles shook his green cotton umbrella again and said,

"Young cabbage heads, all in a row,
Wake up, wake up, it's time to grow."

The cabbages came up as big and round as you please. Then Grandpa
Grumbles shook his green cotton umbrella again and said,

"Turnips come, wake up, 'tis clear
Merry, merry spring is here."

The turnips came up nodding in the sunshine, and Grandpa Grumbles said,

"Open green umbrella and sail away,
They were magic seeds, good day, good day."

He opened the green cotton umbrella and sailed away, and away, and
away.

Bunny Cotton-Tail woke up and looked out of the window. "My fur and
whiskers, look at the garden," he shouted.

Susan woke and looked out the window and said, "Bless my buttons there
is a real little garden."

Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes woke up again and said, "Hurrah, hurrah, how
fast the seeds grow! We must ask Grandpa Grumbles if they were magic
seeds that he gave us."

But Grandpa Grumbles had sailed away