How To Roast A Rabbit

Step 1: Begin by catching the rabbit. (You knew that was coming, didn't you?).

Step 2: Dress if not already dressed (the rabbit).

Step 3: If you're not dressed either, do so.

Step 4: Dig little Petunia out of the flour bin.

Step 5: Heat oven and warm up the roasting pan.

Step 6: Cut up the rabbit.

Step 7: Go change the baby's diaper.

Step 8: Answer the phone.

Step 9: Sift the flour and roll the rabbit pieces in it.

Step 10: Wash flour out of Petunia's hair.

Step 11: Grease the roasting pan and pick all the toys up off the kitchen floor.

Step 12: Go look for Tommy. He was on the front porch the last time you saw him.

Step 13: Call Joe Henderson about those seeds.

Step 14: Return to kitchen.

Step 15: Mop flour off floor where Petunia put rabbit.

Step 16: Clean off rabbit.

Step 17: Mop flour off Petunia.

Step 18: Turn off the oven--it's too hot now.

Step 19: The butter has congealed. Melt it again.

Step 20: Let Tommy in the back door with the fresh eggs.

Step 21: Use the broken one in the recipe.

Step 22: Answer phone.

Step 23: Change baby's diaper.

Step 24: Take Tommy's broken egg and beat it.

Step 25: Beat it back to the kitchen.

Step 26: Beat the other egg.

Step 27: Sit down and collect your wits--no, collect the children.

Step 28: Beat the two eggs together.

Step 29: Take the kids and beat it!

Step 30: Take the rabbit and beat it to the creek.

Step 31: Cut up rabbit for bait and go fishing.

Step 32: Fish may be fried the same way.