H…o…p, h…o…p, h…o…p. Bunny hopped very carefully this time. He did not want to spill a single drop.
Once, inside his cottonwood house, he started a fire in his stove. "Not too hot, not too low," Bunny reminded himself. "Just right to cook the sap down all night long."
After making sure he got the fire just right, he placed the bucket on the stove and went to bed. It had been a looong day and he was sleepy already.
Every once in a while Bunny would wake up during the night and wonder: "Is it ready yet ?"
With excitement he would go to the stove and check. "Noooo, not yet," he would say. "It’s still too runny," and then would go back to bed.