Scherzo for the White Rabbit

'...suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"(when she thought it over afterwards, it occured to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge'

Lewis Carroll
from Alice in Wonderland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Ogden

Thanks to thways (Thorsten) for reminding me of this funny composition (see the comments at http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/21221)