Once upon a time there was an easter egg that wanted to be found by a child. But by mistake someone put it into a plain ordinary egg carton.

So the easter egg went to the grocery store inside a carton marked GRADE A LARGE BROWN. There were eleven other eggs in the carton but none of them talked to the rainbow decorated, star decorated easter egg. It wasn't that they didn't like the easter egg. They just weren't used to it.

Finally, a woman came along who wanted grade A large brown eggs and took the carton home -- after paying for it, of course.

Anyway, she was intending on scrambling the eggs. When she got home she opened up the carton and said "What a strange egg. I don't think it is any good." Then she noticed that it was a very pretty egg.

And then she remembered that the next day was Easter, and that gave her an idea. So she hid the egg and fixed breakfast.

That evening after the children had gone to bed, she got the egg out and looked at it. She went to the store and got a dozen white eggs and brought them back and painted them. So there were thirteen easter eggs and the rainbow egg wasn't by itself anymore.

She hid the eggs all over the yard. Next morning she let the children look for them. They found them under leaves, behind big clumps of grass, in bushes and all over. But they only found 12 eggs.

"Well, there's one more," said their mother, "and it is the prettiest of all." But no matter how hard they looked they couldn't find it.

And then they saw something hop hop down the path from the woods into their yard. It was a very very small bunny colored like a rainbow. It jumped right up to them and they hugged it and cuddled it. And it sniffed its nose at them.

And the children said, "Well, maybe, just maybe that's what happened to the other easter egg." But being very adult children, they added "Probably not!" so that anyone listening would know they weren't silly. They smiled knowingly.

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