HOW TO ROAST A RABBIT

Steps:

• Begin by catching the rabbit. (You knew that was coming, didn't you?).
• Dress if not already dressed (the rabbit).
• If you're not dressed either, do so.
• Dig little Petunia out of the flour bin.
• Heat oven and warm up the roasting pan.
• Cut up the rabbit.
• Go change the baby's diaper.
• Answer the phone.
• Sift the flour and roll the rabbit pieces in it.
• Wash flour out of Petunia's hair.
• Grease the roasting pan and pick all the toys up off the kitchen floor.
• Go look for Tommy. He was on the front porch the last time you saw him.
• Call Joe Henderson about those seeds.
• Return to kitchen.
• Mop flour off floor where Petunia put rabbit.
• Clean off rabbit.
• Mop flour off Petunia.
• Turn off the oven--it's too hot now.
• The butter has congealed. Melt it again.
• Let Tommy in the back door with the fresh eggs.
• Use the broken one in the recipe.
• Answer phone.
• Change baby's diaper.
• Take Tommy's broken egg and beat it.
• Beat it back to the kitchen.
• Beat the other egg.
• Sit down and collect your wits--no, collect the children.
• Beat the two eggs together.
• Take the kids and beat it!
• Take the rabbit and beat it to the creek.
• Cut up rabbit for bait and go fishing.
• Fish may be fried the same way.