Little Jack Rabbit and Danny Fox

<h2><SPAN name="TIMMY_MEADOWMOUSE_HAS_A_DREAM" id="TIMMY_MEADOWMOUSE_HAS_A_DREAM"></SPAN>TIMMY MEADOWMOUSE HAS A DREAM</h2> <p class="noi"><span class="smcap">After</span> bolting the front door, Little Jack Rabbit took Timmy Meadowmouse into the kitchen where Mrs. John Rabbit was paring carrots for supper. It was nice and warm, and Mrs. Rabbit looked so motherly in her big pink gingham apron that the little meadowmouse couldn’t help saying to the little rabbit, “I think your mother’s too sweet for anything.”</p> <p>Although he said it in a whisper, Mrs. Rabbit heard him just the same. She must have, for she leaned right down and gave him a little piece of carrot.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_83" id="Page_83">83</SPAN></span></p> <p>By and by the kitchen door flew open and in hopped Mr. John Rabbit and Brother Bobby Tail. They couldn’t speak for a few minutes they were so out of breath. At last Mr. Rabbit said, “Danny Fox chased us all the way home!”</p> <p>Mrs. Rabbit nearly dropped the dish of carrots on the nice clean floor.</p> <p>“Mercy me! It was only about two hours ago he chased Timmy Meadowmouse into the Old Bramble Patch. My! but that old fox must be hungry!”</p> <p>“I guess he is,” replied Mr. Rabbit, hanging his fur cap on a peg behind the door. Then he began to sing:</p> <div class="block-centre"> <div class="block"> <div class="verse"> <div class="line outdent">“The chickens they stay</div> <div class="line">In the Henhouse all day;</div> <div class="line">And the bunnies don’t go</div> <div class="line">Very far in the snow.</div> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_84" id="Page_84">84</SPAN></span></div> <div class="verse"> <div class="line outdent">“Mr. Fox, you can’t snatch</div> <div class="line">From the Old Bramble Patch</div> <div class="line">A bunny or mouse.</div> <div class="line">We’re safe in the house;</div> </div> <div class="verse"> <div class="line outdent">“We’ve fastened the latch</div> <div class="line">On our Old Bramble Patch!”</div> </div></div> </div> <p>That night Timmy Meadowmouse had a dreadful dream about Danny Fox. You see, he couldn’t forget how that old robber had nearly caught him. As long as he was awake, he knew he was perfectly safe in Little Jack Rabbit’s house. But when he dropped off to sleep he didn’t dream about being safe in the Old Bramble Patch. Oh, my, no! He dreamed that Danny Fox was still chasing him, which, of course, was simply dreadful.</p> <p>All of a sudden, he rolled out of bed with a scream, which woke up the whole Rabbit<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_85" id="Page_85">85</SPAN></span> Family. Yes, it even gave Mr. John Rabbit a shiver, and poor Mrs. Rabbit nearly fainted.</p> <p>By and by, however, they all went to sleep again, and everything was quiet until morning, when Cocky Doodle over at the Big Farmyard woke them up with his early Cock-a-doodle-do.</p> <p>After breakfast Little Jack Rabbit and Timmy Meadowmouse hopped over to the edge of the Old Bramble Patch, where they cautiously peeped through the tangled stalks to see if Danny Fox were around. But he was nowhere in sight.</p> <hr class="divider" /> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_86" id="Page_86">86</SPAN></span> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />