The Monmouth inquirer., 1865-06-22
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THE FIVE LITTLE RABBITS.
BY AMY WARD.

Once upon time there were five little
eabbits who lived with their father and
mother in nice house in a wood. It was
not house built Of bricks and mortar,
with doors and windows to it, such as you,
my little readers, live in; but it was dug
out underground, and was called warren
orburrow They were all pretty and good
tempered little rabbits, but all, except one
Of them, had one very great fault. They
thought that they were wiser than their
father and mother, and so they were not
Lways obeaient as good children ought to
be. It was this fault that brought all
their misfortunes upon them, as I will pre-
sently tell you.
One morning the father and mother of
these little rabbits called them togther,
aud said: "Children, we are going out
to-day, and do not expect to be home till
late in the evening. If you are good and
obedient. and do exactly as we tell you,
no harm can happen to you; but if you
are naughty and will not mind, you will
ssFely be sorry for it,"
They all promised to be very good and
obedient, and their father went on with
his directions:
You must not, on any account" said
he, !" go farther away frsm home than the
large oak tree on one side and the little
beech sapliDg on the other. You must
run into the house at the slightest noise
you hear, without waiting TO find out
what has caused it, and you must not
have anything to say to ostrangers, nor let
any one scrape acquaintance with you. ]
need not tell you not to quarrel with each
other, for that is something you rever do;
bnt / must warn you, Fatty, not TO make
yourself sick by eating too much, and
you, Frisky. must try not to forget every
word l have said before your mother and
/ are out Of sight"
The little rabbits promised again to do
just az they were told, and their father
and mother kissed them goodbye and left
F1itf7e rabbits found them.
selves alone, they run out of doors and
began to chase each other around upon
the soft. green grass They played very
happily together for some Tins, and thAeen
Frisky and Spotty challenged their
brother Bunny to race with them as far
81 q fallen tree little distance beyond
the beech sapling, 81 will run as far as
tSe sapling," said Bunny; but | cannot
go any further, because papa told us moi
tot" Nonsense" answered Frisky, ''tht
.sapling is SO near that we can reach it il
three jumps That is no race at il
sss far as / can go.'' said Bunny, and
wish my dear brother and sister, that yol
would stay with me-" But Frisky only
laughed at him, and Spotty promised tt
,cqme back as soon as he had reached th'
&allen tree. So off they started, Will,
poor Bunny stood and watched them
with tears in his eyes.
In few minutes they reached the tree
Spotty having won the race lie turned
back, but Frisky began to play in some
long grass which was there, and Bum
and Fatty soon lost sight of her.
In the meanwhile Bnnny's favorite sis
ter, Pinkeye, had stayed quietly besid
Fatty, who was nibbling piece of apple
which 4 little boy, who had passed wit
his father the day before, had droppe
there. Bunny was very glad to see hoy
good and quiet they were, and whe
Fatty asked him to come and tastei he
apple, hs thanked her, but said that h