FLUFF-BUTTON THE RABBIT 
Cuni ? Even the All-Father in Whom the woods 
live cannot make happiness more than perfect, and 
for a little while these two were perfectly happy, for 
the Spring desire was satisfied. 
If there were a tragedy in the Woods that 
day, perhaps it was that of old Mutch, who came 
upon the pair too late, for it was the first time that 
she had failed to win a partner for the summer, and 
she was bitterly jealous. However, grief and joy, 
and even life itself, are very transitory among the 
Wild Folk, and before the early evening closed in 
Mutch was grazing peacefully in the Meadow. 
And there, when the celandines shut, Fluff- 
Button and his beloved followed her to see the moon 
rise ; and the wind sang among the swelling buds 
of the warm summer days to be. 
