21NNE found some difficulty in keeping 



her appointment with the moon that evening. In 

 the first place Tommy begged that she would put 

 him to bed and "make him a story." It took a 

 long time to tell about the frogs and the rabbit 

 tail, and Tommy grew so excited about the latter 

 that he tried to make Anne promise to find the 

 poor hurt Bunnie next day and fasten its tail on 

 again, with some of the rubber sticking-plaster 

 the Doctor had given her. 



Then when Anne finally reached her room her 

 mother came up for a bedtime talk, and so it was 

 half-past eight before the lamp was put out and 

 she pulled up the shade to let in the moonlight. 



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