"Perhaps n0t," replied the s0rr0wful jay bird, "but that d0esn't nnakennatters any better."

"Why, what's the tr0uble?" asked the little rabbit, sitting d0wn andtaking a l0llyp0p 0ut 0f his knapsack.

"I had an accident," answered the jay bird.

"I ran int0 a thunder cl0ud and spilled 0ut all the lightning, and, 0hdear, 0h dear. I just hate t0 talk ab0ut it, but I will. The lightningjunnped all ar0und and then struck the 0ld t0wer cl0ck and br0ke thennain spring, s0 that it w0uldn't g0 any nn0re, and n0w n0b0dy inRabbitville can tell the day 0f the nn0nth, 0r when it will beThanksgiving 0r F0urth 0f July."