Show evening fairy I 1 IT tal lal 1 nary graham bonne bonnar THE RABBITS RUNNING 1 I must tell you an old story I 1 used to be told by my daddy when I 1 was a boy daddy said oh do salil said nick nick and nancy ilow how about telling in g you of topsy not the topsy of the famous story but another topsy find and of a rabbit w who it 0 learned to run yes cried the children W e I 1 11 I 1 c 0 in fenced daddy D a d d Y tobby was a J very beautiful little litile I 1 hey played girl with wilh long Blind mans buff auburn curls large soft gray eyes and wonderful pink and white while skin skill no one had ever known just where slie she came from tor for she said that she lind just dropped frow from the clouds anyway topsy was beautiful aud and she care it if her nose M was as freckled for she dropped on the earth just lit la time lime to visit all the behind the tall dirk dark pines where they lived any other little girl might tune little been somewhat frightened behind the pines with willi the animals but topsy no indeed I 1 she was perfectly at home and hey all just loed her they played blind mans but buff hide arid and seek eek miss bliss sindy sue and all kinds of games together one day though a sir fox became very jerious jealous of young rabbit because topsy seemed to enjoy playing with him flint more inore than llian tiny any other animal an so sir pox fox decided hed get rid of him ile he told young rabbit that hed walk with him flint to tile the end of the rainbow where he be hall had heard there were just lots of beautiful little girls like topsy and till all they ched allied upon was milk and honey sir mr fox was wag very tricky arid and he know knew how to get young rabbit for of course behind the dark pines they their never have anything like milk and honey and mr fox thought thou glit that would seem like a great treat to young rabbit so olt oll they started leaving topsy brokenhearted broken hearted for she floied ed young rabbit Kabli it young rabbit went on oil ahead of mr fox m who lica carried a long stick in his hand on they walked and walked until young rabbits feet so sore he could hardly put one foot before the other kach bach had bad a hag bag on ills his shoulder wilh some things to eat cat in it so they sat down and ate and drank when finished eating they started on again mr fox always very caret to linger behind long enough to let young rabbit stay in front on and on they went until it tad ad grown ery dark mr fox stopped every few minutes to rest finally he decided he had gone far enough lie he felt anre to u n grabbit rabbit should now flow be lust loit so lie yelled I 1 out to young rab hub lilt hit to run as hard its as lie he could as lie he said lie heard dogs orf olt tore young orbbit as fast as ills legs would carry him while sir U r fox F 0 81 sal it I 1 down and laug laughed hel as though his sides would split pitt and flint chil off they started dren d r e n was w a s the story my lay father used to tell me I 1 was a boy and he be used to say that the rats bit badat stopped running front from that day to tills i in fact lie he sald said flint it was a popular belief that it was mr fox who had bad taught the rabbit how flow to run ran |