Show I DADDiS EVENING v NING AIRY JAIRY TALI TAL 0 Mary Mry d Grah ir h hONer Banner ON er OR THE MARSH RABBITS Well said Mrs Marsh Rabbit us ns she looked about her it wont won't be so long before spring now Of course It will be quite n a time but It w will ill pass quickly I will then begin bogin to welcome welcome wel wel- come the little ones They will come comein comen in n groups t se several times during the rest of the year car after that And how they will wUl love their home Mine will love Jove their home too said Mrs 1 Swamp Rabbit for we are areso areso areso so very much alike aUke We have hav nests of grasses and rushes softly lined with our own fur We Ye live in swampy marshy lands and we love the vegetables vegetables vegetables and roots around our parts Yes y s were we're very much alike aUke said sad Mrs 1 Marsh Rabbit We both love the water water so much that w we live around It and we love Jove swimming as ass much as ns we do running or jumping or skip skip- ping We alwn always s 's run to water when we e want to escape We ah a always s 's go straight for it when danger is near for the tile water is s a n great protection n to us for forthe forthe forthe The rhe wood rabbit relatives care cure the great woods and not for the water at all aU t You Mrs Swamp Rabbit belong to a larger family than I do with long longlegs longlegs longlegs legs and you can run faster But I Icare Icare Icare care more for the water than you ou do You will wUl often live further away from It than I will wUl We both Uv live down south it is true sand and you you- ou look quite a bit like Uke me I Iam Iam am and a relative too of the cotton cottontail tall but I have smaller ears calS and ana c c cA ci i A Ja r iL To Escape shorter thinner legs and feet and a short chort taU tall Youre You're m my 9 only ver very near relative and ana yo you go o more mora to the w west st than ban I doOh doOh doOh do Oh you must be off now Well Yell good bye e glad to have seen you Its It's quite a treat Good bye said Mrs Swamp Rabbit Rabbit Rab- Rab bit lt and I will will be thinking of you youn ou In n April when the children will come I will think of your children as I behold behold be- be hold lold my own little beauties She was off oft and Mrs 1 Marsh Rabbit Rah flab bit looked about herI herI her I must see that my nest is all aU allright allright right she said sad Her nest was in the heart of a swamp surrounded b by water It was was wasn wasa a n very warm and amI comfortable and soft sort I Ilo lo looking nest with all its grass and leaves and its soft sott fur as ns a n lining Its so nice nce said Mrs Marsh Rabbit Rabbit Rab flab bit to herself not to hn have ve to depend on shops to get things one needs Now I wouldn't know where to go for a n alining alining lining such as I have In my nest but butI I dont don't have to look about and get exhausted shopping Just some of or my own fur will do I And the children will know its it's mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's old id fur and the they will love it and will lie so snugly upon It and wilt dream happy little marsh r rabbit dreams And they wont won't capture capture- us us-crea- us crea creatures tures whore who're out looking for rabbits rabbits- no they won wont won't t For we know how to hide In the water We Ve know how to look after ourselves and that Is why we live where we doWe do We live where we e can be be- safe and happy end and nd where everything around us will be marshy and comfortable But I will have to tell my little ones the old stor story of the door uThe They will see the one entrance to the nest and they will say say Wh Why mother moth moth- er erdo do o we all go out of the same door And I will tell them That is the great entrance to Mother Marsh Rabbits Rabbit's nab flab bits bit's home and It Is as fine as any entrance way or front door to any big house or mansion And the little ones will wiggle their noses and will sa say How lIow nice It Is to be little marsh rabbits and to have ha a n front door to our Oui home like real folks do Dear pear little bunnies what a happy home awaits you |