Why rabbits deliver Easter eggs

Once, a long, long time ago, the Maiden of Spring asked all the animals to deliver eggs to the good children for Easter.

She gave eggs to the cats and the dogs to deliver but they got into a fight with each other and all their eggs got broken.

She gave eggs to the mice to deliver but the mice were just too small to carry the heavy basket with the eggs in.

She gave eggs to the tortoises but, though they could carry the baskets on top of their shells, the tortoises were just too slow to deliver anything.

She gave eggs to the foxes and the weasels to deliver but those greedy foxes and weasels ate up all the eggs themselves.

She gave eggs to the moles to deliver but they couldn’t see well enough and delivered all the eggs to the wrong places.

She gave eggs to the goats to deliver but they were far too grumpy.

She even gave eggs to the bears to deliver but they were so big and ferocious that they just scared all the children away.

But then she gave the eggs to the fluffy, happy little rabbits and they hopped around delivering the eggs just the way that the Spring time wanted.

That is why, ever since, Easter eggs have been delivered, not by the Easter dog or cat or by the Easter mouse or tortoise, fox, weasel,mole, goat or bear but by that lovable, cuddly character the Easter Bunny.