Sally Isn't Smart, But She's Pretty

Sally Bunny was a pretty little bunny who lived in a pretty little burrow on the edge of Dingly Dell. Sally liked to play with the other bunnies and she liked going to school at Dingly Elementary. She especially liked recess and she liked staying after school to do special favors for her teacher, Mr. Knucklypaws.

Sally liked all the other little bunnies and they liked her too. She was the most popular bunny in the whole school and that made her very happy. Mr. Knucklypaws was always nice to her and that also made her happy.

But even though Sally tried very hard to do all the things in school the other bunnies did and even though she did special favors for Mr. Knucklypaws, her grades weren’t very good. That made Sally a confused pretty little bunny.

Her sister, Alice, got straight A’s. The other bunnies didn’t like Alice very much and Mr. Knucklypaws never asked Alice to do any special favors. But still Alice got A’s and Sally could never get better than a B+ no matter how hard she tried. Poor Sally. Oh how she wished she could get A’s like her sister, Alice!

So one day Sally asked her mommy, “Mommy, is Alice smarter than me?”

“Of course she is,” Mommy answered, “but she’s ugly.”

“Why can’t I be smart like Alice?” Sally asked.

“Because you don’t need to be,” said Mommy. “You’re pretty.”

Sally’s mommy was right. Dingly Dell is a fair place. Some little bunnies are dumb like Sally. They can’t get A’s even if they do all their homework and do special favors for Mr. Knucklypaws. They don’t understand math because it has too many numbers and squiggly things. That’s o.k. because pretty little bunnies are supposed to be looked at, not listened to.

Other little bunnies are smart but they’re ugly. When they get older they go to college and get good jobs. But boy bunnies don’t like them and they’re very lonely.

So do you understand the moral of this story? Do you?

If you do, you’re an ugly little bunny.