t you to tell Mrs. Bunny that I'll just about whip the life
out of Sonny Bunny if she ever tries to get any more of that stuff
down my throat. I was only shaken up a little, and as soon as you
meddling people let me alone, I came around all right. Now I'm going
to drive those boys out of the club premises. If James Crow can't look
after things at such a time, as a president should, I'll teach him a
lesson!'

"It provoked me to hear the foolish squirrel talking like that at a
time when he'd better have been in bed attending to himself; but I'm
so soft-hearted that it really made me feel badly to hear of his
anxiety to get into more trouble before he was well out of the scrape
with the Professor, and I said in the most friendly way you can
imagine:

"'Now look here, Cheeko, it'll be wiser for you to go straight back
home and stay there till your coat is mended in better shape, for if
one of those boys should get a fair shot at you, as they did at me,
there'd be one squirrel the less in the big woods. Why don't you take
warning from your poor brother's fate?'

"Now I ask you if I said anything which one friend shouldn't have said
to another at such a time, and yet, do you know, Cheeko went away into
the air with anger. You'd thought I'd really insulted him; he bristled
up his tail, swinging it around over his ears exactly as before he got
hurt, and shouted at me:

"'Look here, Bunny Rabbit, I'll have you understand that I don't want
any advice from you! What does a burlesque imitation of a see-saw like
you know about fellows in my class? From this time on you'll keep your
tongue between your teeth when I'm anywhere around, else both your
eyes will be knocked into one, and don't you forget it!'

"I had a good deal more than half a mind to tell him I could swallow
such as he without standing any chance of being troubled with
dyspepsia, or kick him into the middle of next week without straining
my legs; but I didn't want to stir up a row, particularly while those
boys were so near that they might have taken a hand in it, so off I
hopped; but you may be certain I didn't go very far away on account of
wanting to see what Cheeko would be foolish enough to do. I hid behind
a lot of mullein leaves, where it was possible to see what was going
on near Crow's Corner, and it wasn't necessary to wait very long
before that foolish squirrel came up against all he was looking for,
and a little more.

"Cheeko and I had been talking