The white rabbit family have arrived at K. C. Bunnyborough. They hop to Mr and Mrs Grayson’s house and knock on the door. Mr and Mrs Grayson open the door to welcome them in, but the word has got around and other rabbits have arrived to welcome them too.
“What’s happened to your ear tips?” asks Mrs Grayson. The other rabbits all murmur amongst themselves and point to the white rabbits ear tips. The mother, Teri, answers, “We met Mr Kiwi who was selling nugget. He said to rub the brown nugget on our ear tips to stop them from getting sun burnt.” “Oh really!” Mrs Grayson exclaimed. Now was not the time to tell Teri that nugget is for shoes and boots.
The next morning, after a good sleep and wash the white rabbits notice that the brown nugget has not washed off their ear tips. The family look in the mirror and say they like the brown ear tips because it looks like their ears have a chocolate coating on them. The family will be known as the chocolate family which is appropriate because the father, Frasier, makes and sells chocolate.
The family sit down to have breakfast with the Grayson Family and Teri tells them what has happened. “We lived in a hutch as pet rabbits in Christchurch but when the first earthquake happened (4.9.10) the door of the cage opened and we escaped. We hopped constantly for three day and nights until we came to Picton. We rested in an unused burrow and I had a baby which we had to leave there because we could not swim across Cook Strait and hold the baby. Frasier swam across holding Coco and I swam across holding Freya.” Teri starts crying and Frasier announces that he is leaving this morning to go back to get the baby.
Grandpa and Grandmother Cottontail arrived just as Teri started her story. Grandpa Cottontail offers Frasier his car to drive back and Mr Grayson goes to a friend's house to borrow a boat for Frasier to row across Cook Straight.
Frasier leaves as soon as the boat arrives and drives to Wellington. He arrives at twilight, parks the car in a secluded place and rows across Cook Strait in the dark. He hops to the burrow and finds baby rabbit asleep so curls up beside her and sleeps until morning.
It is a bright sunny morning so he rubs nugget all over baby rabbit so she doesn't get sunburnt. Then he puts her in the boat and rows back to the car.
Near the car Frasier sees a rabbit asleep by a tree. He pats the rabbit, which wakes with a fright. She says, “I saw you arrive last night. I had just swum across Cook Strait when you lowered the boat into the water and rowed across to Picton. I have been waiting for you to return. My burrow is blocked from the Christchurch earthquake so I am going to K. C. Bunnyborough to live.”
"Hop into the car and I will drive you there." said Frasier. Clematis sat in the car and held the brown slippery baby while Frasier drove back to K. C. Bunnyborough. Frasier has named the baby Nugget!
