A FAMILY OF RABBITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 29

A FAMILY OF RABBITS

(Second Prize Story.) There was once a jolly little family of bunnies who lived in a comfortable horn© on th© bank of a river. They were very happy until one day a bis flood came, and they decided they could not stay there any longer. So they packed up a few things, and set off in search of a new home. They wandered on and on until they came to the edge of a big forest, where they lived very happily until one day some careless boys made a fire, setting the grass alight. Soon Jackie Bunny came limping in with on© foot badly burnt, and Mrs. Bunny had to bind it up for him. They had to leave that place, too, as they were burnt out, and once again they set out in search of a new home. They came across many burrows, but they were all full of bunnies, and, just as the sun was sinking and they were all feeling very sad indeed, they saw rather an old bunny standing outside his burrow. “Oh, please,” cried Mrs. Bunny, who reached him first, “we have had to leave our home because the forest was on fire, and we can’t find a new one anywhere. Can you tell us of an empty burrow?” But the old rabbit was looking very hard at hex'. “Why,” he asked, “are you not my old friend Lucy Bunny, and is this not Wally Bunny, whom you married?” “I do believe it is our old friend, Bob Rabbit!” Mr. Bunny said. “Where are your wife and child, old friend?” “Both dead,” said Mr. Rabbit sadly, ‘“and lam very lonely. Will you come and share my home with me?” Mr. Bunny agreed at once, and soon they were- all safely housed in Mr. Rabbit’s burrow, eating a lovely supper of green lettuces. So ended all their troubles. —Jack Worthington (aged 10). THE DANCE I asked a fairy how to dance, And this she said to me: “Don’t grumble if I take you To the little almond tree.” And then she made me whirl around. And curtsey to a rose. “Mind,” she said, “when you blow a kiss You don’t trip over your toes; “For mortals haven’t fairy feet. And are not as light as we. . . . You must try to dance like the little buds That grow on the almond tree.” —Gloria Rawlinson (aged 10). HUNT THE HARE This is a kind of hunt the hare game, only you are divided into sides. One side hides pieces of red paper, and the other hides pieces of blue—an equal number to be mutually agreed upon is best. The blues go hunting for the red. and vice versa. Whichever side finds the most pieces during a given time wins the game. A very good team game for a ramble, if two of each side can prepare the route beforehand, or it can be played in a large garden.