Little Jack Rabbit and Danny Fox

<h2><SPAN name="TEDDY_TURTLE" id="TEDDY_TURTLE"></SPAN>TEDDY TURTLE</h2> <div class="block-centre"> <div class="block"> <div class="verse"> <div class="line"><span class="smcap">A turtle</span> goes much slower</div> <div class="line">Than an old sea-going hack.</div> <div class="line">He never has to hurry home</div> <div class="line">For his house is on his back,</div> </div></div> </div> <p class="noi">sang Bobbie Redvest as Little Jack Rabbit hopped down the Old Cow Path in the Sunny Meadow.</p> <p>“I wonder what I’ll do to-day?” the little bunny asked himself, when all of a sudden, along came Teddy Turtle with his little shell bungalow on his back, for Teddy Turtle always carries it with him, rain or shine, anywhere and everywhere. Yes, sir, that little turtle is very lucky; he never is<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</SPAN></span> forced to move out on the first of May, nor is there any unkind landlord to bother him.</p> <p>“Where are you going?” asked the little rabbit.</p> <p>“Down to the Old Duck Pond. Come along. We’ll make a call on Granddaddy Bullfrog.”</p> <p>“Very well,” answered the little rabbit, “I’ve nothing to do this morning. I’ll come along.”</p> <p>Then off they started, Teddy Turtle crawling slowly down the path, and Little Jack Rabbit hopping along, now and then sitting down to wait for the little turtle to catch up to him. By and by, Little Jack Rabbit said:</p> <p>“Don’t you ever get tired carrying your house about with you? You’re just like a moving van.”</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_50" id="Page_50">50</SPAN></span></p> <p>“Oh, I’m used to it,” answered Teddy Turtle. “When I go out in the morning I don’t have to worry about getting back to the house by supper time.”</p> <p>“Ha, ha!” laughed the little rabbit. “Your head sticks out of the front door and your tail through the kitchen door!”</p> <p>But, Oh dear me. He was so taken up with the little turtle that he didn’t notice a big, black shadow on the path. But Teddy Turtle did. Oh, my yes!</p> <p>“Look out!” he shouted, “here comes Hungry Hawk!” And he pulled his head in through the front door and his tail in through the back door, and all you could see was a little shell house on the meadow grass.</p> <div class="figcenter width500"> <ANTIMG src="images/p050.jpg" width-obs="500" height-obs="760" alt="" /> <div class="caption">Little Jack Rabbit Meets Teddie Turtle.</div> <p class="right mt0 mb0"><em>Page</em> 48</p> <p class="noi mt0"><small><em>Little Jack Rabbit and Danny Fox.</em></small></p> </div> <p>And the little rabbit? He hopped into a hollow stump so quickly that Hungry Hawk<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</SPAN></span> had to knock three times before Teddy Turtle dared to squint out of his little shell house.</p> <p>Pretty soon Hungry Hawk rapped again on the old hollow stump.</p> <div class="block-centre"> <div class="block"> <div class="verse"> <div class="line">Rat-a-tat-tat! went Hungry Hawk</div> <div class="line">On the door of the Hollow Stump.</div> <div class="line">The Bunny Boy’s heart beat pitter pat,</div> <div class="line">And his knees went bumpity, bump!</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="divider" /> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</SPAN></span> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />