Little Jack Rabbit's big blue book
kitchen where Lady Love and her bunny boy were eating supper. 
“Have you got any clover top pie?” asked the old gentleman rabbit, hanging up his old wedding stovepipe hat. 
Of course Lady Love had. She had everything that was good to eat, you may be sure. 
As soon as the supper dishes were cleared away, the three little rabbits hopped into the sitting room to hear the victrola sing: “Oh, early in the morning Before the sun is high, I love to hunt for cherries In mother’s apple pie. And if Old Mother Hubbard Can’t find her dog a bone, I’ll take him to the candy store To get an ice cream cone.” 
“Ha, ha!” laughed Uncle Lucky, and he told a funny story of a crab who, by walking backwards into an orchard, made all the trees bear crab apples, which so provoked the farmer that he boiled the crab and ate him for supper. 
By and by the little cuckoo began to sing from her little clock house: “Time for bed, time for bed!” At once the three little rabbits hopped upstairs, first blowing out all the electric lights so that Hungry Hawk, who is always looking for little mice and rabbits, wouldn’t be able to see the little white bungalow. 
And when everything was quiet a tiny fly asked Little Miss Cricket: “Is there any cheese in Lady Love’s cupboard?” 
But the little cricket wouldn’t tell where Lady Love kept all her good things and neither would I and neither would the canary bird who was sound asleep with her head under her wing. 
The next morning, bright and early, Uncle Lucky shouted over the ’phone: “Is this the Three-in-One Cent Store? Don’t forget to put in Little Jack Rabbit’s radio apparatus?” 
“We’ll have it installed to-day—don’t worry.” 
“Let’s invite all our friends over to-night,” said Uncle Lucky, turning to Little Jack Rabbit. 
In less than five hundred short seconds the two little bunnies were speeding away. Pretty soon they saw Squirrel Nutcracker on the doorstep of his Chestnut Tree House. 
“Come over to-night and listen in over our new radio,” shouted the bunny boy. 
“I’ll be there, thank you!” replied the old squirrel. 
Next, Busy Beaver said he’d come; also Sammy Skunk and the Big Brown Bear. Then Uncle Lucky stopped at the Old Duck Pond to invite Granddaddy Bullfrog and Taddy Tadpole. 
“What’s all the noise about?” asked pretty Mrs. Oriole from her stocking-like nest on the Old Willow Tree. 
“Come over to my radio party to-night,” answered Little Jack Rabbit, as he drove over to the Barnyard. 
“I’ll come,” crowed Cocky Doodle. 
“I’ll be there,” said Goosey Lucy. 
“I won’t be a second late,” promised Turkey Tim."Yes, we’ll come,
  Make no mistake,
 And don’t forget
  The Angel Cake!” shouted all the Barnyard Folk.
“Ha! ha!” laughed Little Jack Rabbit, “won’t we have a dandy radio party?”

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