Lord and Lady Bunny - Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath

Author:Polly Horvath
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307980670
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

It was a short hop to the village. When the bunnies got there Madeline’s family’s sweet shoppe was easy to find. It had a large sign out front saying SWEET SHOPPE.

The shoppe was already open and behind the counter were Mildred, Flo, Madeline, Katherine and a little man the bunnies didn’t recognize. Mildred and Flo and the man were in such a loud conversation that no one even heard the shoppe bell tinkle as the rabbits entered.

“I’m terribly sorry. I shall have my secretary fired at once, of course. Dear, dear, to think you crossed the Atlantic under such a misapprehension,” said the little man with a worried expression.

“Not to mention circumnavigating the North and South American continents,” said Flo. “But hey, man, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

“Yes, ahem, as I was saying, to think you came all this way because my secretary made a typo.”

“So,” said Mildred, “you’re saying that the sweet shoppe didn’t clear a hundred thousand pounds in the month of August alone, as we read in your letter?”

“Ahem, not quite.”

“So it made only ten thousand pounds?”

“No, no.”

“Well, thank heavens for that, because ten thousand pounds isn’t enough for Zanky’s thirty acres,” said Mildred.

“So! What did it clear?”

“Well, under the circumstances, I’m not sure you want to know,” said the man.

“Just tell us!” yelled Mildred.

“One thousand pounds,” said the man in a small voice.

“WHAT!” said Mildred.

“Of course, that’s about sixteen hundred of your Canadian dollars. Give or take a few dollars. That’s a little better. Although”—he paused and cleared his throat and finished in a smaller voice—“not really.”

“One thousand pounds? That’s all the shop made in August? One thousand pounds? We’d have to stay here a couple of years to make enough to buy Zanky’s acreage.”

“Yeah, and we’ve got to be on the cruise ship for our return gig,” said Flo. “We can’t stay two years, man.”

“We’re in a recession. So many out of work, you see. So much unemployment. There just hasn’t been money for extras in so many households. And I’m afraid sweets are, ahem, rather an extra. Now I must get back to my office. Sorry for the confusion. And who knows, perhaps you can find a way to turn a better profit in August. Don’t you have that Yankee ingenuity we hear so much about?”

“Yankees are American,” said Katherine.

“We’re Canadians,” said Madeline. When would people learn to tell the difference?

“Right. Still, I hope you enjoy your stay.”

When the man left, Mildred pulled up a chair and sat down heavily. “Well, that’s that,” she said. “We may as well just turn around and go home.”

“Hey, synchronicity. I’m the Dalai Lama of sugar, remember? I’m bringing sugar to the people. Who cares if we make any money?”

“Flo, the whole point of coming here was to make money so that we could buy Zanky’s thirty acres,” said Mildred wearily.

“The whole point of buying Zanky’s thirty acres was to have money for my college education,” Madeline whispered to Katherine.

“We don’t know what the point of anything is,” said Flo.

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