Well, I’m glad the little rabbit lost only the fur tip to his tail. That was bad enough, but he forgot all about it the next morning when the Squirrel Brothers invited him over the ’phone to meet them at the Shady Forest Pond. He spent no time at all getting out his skates, but his mother took two minutes and a half tying a muffler around his neck. She knew, like all wise mothers, that it’s lots more fun to skate when one is nice and warm.  
When he reached the pond the Squirrel Brothers were already there, skating merrily over the ice.
 
Busy in his winter home below could hear them whirring along, cutting fancy figures in the ice, and calling merrily to one another.
 
After a while, when the little rabbit and the squirrel brothers had grown tired of skating, they ran over to make a call on Old Barney , who lived in the Big Tree on a small island, right in the middle of the pond.
 
Although it was now pretty late in the afternoon, the old gentleman owl was still asleep, and when he opened the door, his eyes and blinked, and at first he didn’t know them at all. In fact, he shut the door right in their faces. I suppose he thought they had knocked just to wake him up. Perhaps they had, for when the door closed w............