Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-31

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ran through the woods, and all the lit
tie rabbits ran after him, and, when
they were all-thousands of them
in a safe place, tiny hare cried
ooh! Oh! Oh! Don't any Of you dare
to show even one whisker! There is a
baby in the woods, and he is cold, and
oh, dear, dear, dear! his father has
gone out with stone ak to get rab-
bit skim
Then all the little rabbits began to
cry:
What shall us do? What shall us
do?" and tiny hare said:
I'll run home to mother hare and
ask her.
So tiny hare and all the little rab.
bits-thousands Of them-ran till they
came to the farm where tiny hare lived
ooh oh! OH" cried all those thou
sands of rabbits.
What in the world is the matter?
asked mother hare.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh" cried all those
thousands of rabbits
you make such a noise I can't
think. Hush, this minute" said moth
er hare.
Then all those rabbits sat down very
quiet, and made their ears very
straight, and tiny hare said:
There's a baby in the woods
YES" said mother hare.
He belongs to man. He hasn't any
fur said tiny hare.
"Well?" said mother hare
He's cold" said tiny hare.
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mother hare
He's so cold that he cries all the
time said tiny hare.
What of that" asked mother hare.
His father wants him to be warm,
and he's gone into the woods
ITO get rabbit skim shouted the
little rabbits, and they all began to
cry again:
Stay near your homes as l do all
the light time, and, when the dark,
dark, dark comes, go out and get your
food, and man cannot see YOU" said
mother hare, but all the rabbits cried
But, we like to play in the light
time. We like to run in the woods.
What shall us do?'
HUSH said Father Hare, very low
and deep. do not wake me any more
today" and he shut his eyes and put
his ears down, and away ran all those
rabbits into the woods, They met a
flock Of sheep in the woods, and after
it strayed tired white lamb.
Look at his coat, how soft and
warm Why can't Man take his coat
for the Baby?" said Tiny Hare, and
then-what do you think those rabbits
did?
They ran and they ran around that
white lamb until he was too dizzy to
follow the flock, and then they made
him run far and far till he was caught
in the thorn bushes under the very
tree where the First Baby hung in his
bark cradle, crying, "Ah-ah- ali! Eee-ee-
ee,"
"Maa-maa!" cried the lamb, and
Baby Bunting's Mother ran to him.
She saw the bits of long, white fleece
on the thorn bushes, and she thought
of beautiful plan. She got her sharp
stone knife, and cut the white woolly
coat from that little lamb, and he was
glad, and away he ran after his moth
err
All day long Baby Bunting's Mother
combed and spun the white wool, and
by and by the Man came
81 did not find rabbit in all the
wild woods he said.
Then the Mother held up the little
shirt she had made from the fleece of
the lamb.
How soft. How fine" said the
Man, and they put the little shirt on
Baby Bunting.
How warm it was. How comfy, 1t
fitted him just as well as the fur Of a
rabbit Baby Bunting was glad. He did
not cry another minute. He shut his
eyes and went fast asleep.
Then Tiny Hare and all those little
rabbits. who had Seen every single
thing from behind we thorn bushes.
ran, skip and jump, aN they were not
afraid in those woods any more.