Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you are having a really good day.
Yesterday I told you how Robert Q. Rabbit discovered what a skunk is. We were headed home, and Robert Q. wasn't going to have to tell father what he had done. Father would know by the time Robert Q. got within 50 feet of him, he smelled so bad.
When we got home Robert Q. asked "am I going to be punished?" Father answered "I think you've been punished enough. You will smell for days and days, and no one will want to be near you, so you'll have to sleep outside." "Won't something get me in the night?" asked Robert Q.
"No" said father "everyone will think you are a skunk, and unlike you, they have enough sense not to come near a skunk. But I know something that will help you.” And he looked at the rest of us and said "some of you boys come with me.”
We went on a long walk that night to Farmer Early's garden to get tomatoes. Farmer Early doesn't mind if we use some tomatoes every now and again. We took the tomatoes back home and father showed us what to do. We put the tomatoes into a big bowl and crushed the up and swirled and swirled. "It's tomato juice" said father, "and it's the only thing I know of that will take away the smell of a skunk.”
At home father broke open the cans on a rock, and gave Robert Q. a good bath of tomato juice. None of us helped because he smelled so bad.
The tomato juice helped, but for the next week Robert Q. was not just a smelly rabbit, he was a bright red smelly rabbit.
Keep you chin up!
Robert P. Rabbit