One Saturday a email boy asked his i father for a shilling to buy a rabbit. On: being satisfied that a. hutch was being fixed - up in which to keep the rabbit, and being also a believer in the civilising influence on boys of keeping pels, dad gave him the shilling. The following Saturday a second youngster came on the same errand, ;and obtained a shilling. • It happened to be a large family, and not wanting to display any favoritism, dad eventually gave a shil-' ling to each of his children for the pur chase of a rabbit. One day he went out to,see all these rabbite, and was surprised to find only one. He inquired of his cbil-, dren what they had all done with their, shillings. Each declared that he or she had bought a rabbit. “Well, where are they?” he demanded. “Why, dad,” explained one of the youngsters, “it was the. same rabbit: we bought it from each .other ; r .
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Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 8
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