"Come here,
Bunny, and see what really is in your desk. I can't understand how an
alligator would get in there if you didn't bring it."
Bunny opened his desk cover, the other boys wishing they had his chance
to "show off" this way right in the school room. Bunny looked inside and
then laughed.
"Yes," he said, "it's Judy, the littlest alligator. She won't hurt
anybody."
"But how did it get to school?" asked Miss Bradley.
"It's in my big pencil box," Bunny answered. "I brought my pencil box to
school this morning, but I didn't open it and----"
"Teacher! Teacher! I know!" exclaimed Sue, raising her hand to show that
she had something to tell.
"Well, how did it happen?" asked Miss Bradley.
"If you please, Teacher," said the little girl, "Bunny's pencil box was
out in the barn where we keep the alligators. He left it there when we
played school the other day. This morning Bunny couldn't find his pencil
box, but it was out in the barn. He brought it in from there and we came
to school."
"And I guess," said Bunny, finishing the story his sister had started,
"that Judy climbed into my pencil box in the night and went to sleep
there and I didn't see her.
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