The age-herald., 1900-08-19
JACKS PET BUNNIES.

The smallest bird Is species of humming
 bird, common in Mexico and Central Ameri-
 ca. It is not quite so large as the blue-bot-
 tie fly.
 ''Whie | whiew! w-h-i-e-w!" whistled
 Bob Hix, as Teaser, his little Scotch ter
 rier, started up stream after a mamma
 rabbit that had gone out to get some nice'
 fresh. juicy leaves for her wee bunnies,
 that were in her little home in an old
 log on tho side of the ravine.
 The louder Bob whlstled the harder Teas CT ran, for he was accustomed to chase
 every small animal that crossed his mas
 ter's pafh whenever they were out for
 stroll.
 Sometimes Teaser started a wood-chuck
 or a grounding, and then Bob urged him
 to catch it, because Bob thought them
 proper game, but he did not want Teaser
 to kill rabbits and as Teaser did not al-
 ways stop to think of that, he sometimes
 got in trouble, and received a good whip
 p'ng for destroying happy rabbits homes.
 When Bob saw Teaser run up through
 the high ferns after mamma rabbit he chased him. calling to him to come back
 but Teaser never stopped until he had caught poor mamma rabbit, just as she Was lodging into the hollow log, where
  Teaser bit her very hard, and just as Bob reached him he broke her backbone. Bob saw that the poor rabbit was dying,
 and, after whipping Teaser, took the five wee baby bunnies from their warm little
 home, dnd putting them in his pockets,
 carried them to his fathers house. because he knew that they would have to have something to eat, and there were lots of
 cabbage and lettuce in the garden. When Bob got home he made a nice warm nest in a big basket for the bun niese and put them into it, and then he told Teaser that if he touched the bunnies he would give him a hard whipping and chain him up for week; and Teaser un-
 derstood him, for he had been punished In that way before.
 The little bunnies soon learned to love Bob, for he gave them nice leaves to eat
 and played with them whenever he and Teaser were not running about the woods and fields, for it was Bob's vacation, and he had lots of time to spare.
 One day Bob's cousin Jack came to see him and to play with the bunnies. and, after they had lot of fun, Jack told Bob that the bunnies should have a nice little house that they could live in, and d place to burrbw in the ground, because bunnies sometimes make holes in the ground to live in, or to hide fresh leaves in until they want to eat them.
 | And so Jack and Bob, who had a set of | tools. built a little house for the bunnes. The house had an up stairs and a down l stairs, {and Bob and Jack called some of 1 the rooms bedrooms. and the big one that had the door in it the parlor and the one they were to put leaves into they called the dining room. The boys got an old window that Bob's father had in the barn, and with the glass that was in it made windows in | three sides of the bunnes' house. and when | they had 1t all finished they built a little fence around it so that the house fould 1 have yard for the bunnies to romp and l play in.
 | Bob wanted to take some of his father paint and paint the house and fence, but Jack told him not to do it. because bun nies always bite at ther houses and take off lots of small pieces and he said that If the bunnies should eat the painted wood 1t would kill them, and then Bob didn t paint the house.
 The house and yard being all finished, Bob and Jack got the bunnes and put