Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare

by David Cory

  "The Yellow Dog Tramp, who is old and lame Is watching you play your tag-a-rag game,"

  he answered, whereupon all the fairies said:

  "Jump over the fence, and play awhile Drop your scowl and put on a nice smile."

  And when the Yellow Dog Tramp heard that, he couldn't help but laugh,and in less than five hundred short seconds he was over the wall. But,oh dear me. In a few minutes the big Ragged Rabbit Giant leaned over thetree top and said in a deep gruff voice:

  "Fee, fum, fag, fog. I smell the blood of a yellow dog."

  "Quick, I must change you into a fairy puppy," said the queen fairy, andshe waved her bright wand, and in less time than I can take to tell ithe became small enough to creep into a tulip flower.

  "Where has that dog gone?" asked the big Ragged Rabbit Giant, peekingunder the bushes and behind the sunflowers, but he never thought to lookin the tulip.

  "Thunder and lightning! What happened to that dog," and the Giant Rabbitdusted off the knees of his trousers after creeping under a lilac bush;"he must be here somewhere." But not a fairy said a word, and prettysoon a mosquito stung that wicked old Giant Rabbit on the back of hisneck, which made him so angry that he stepped over the garden wall andwalked away.

  And when he was out of sight the queen fairy changed the Yellow DogTramp back again into his natural shape:

  "Always trust the fairies If danger you are in. And always say 'A lucky day!' When e'er you find a pin,"

  sang the queen fairy as the happy Yellow Dog Tramp ran into Uncle JohnHare's little house.

  And there we will leave him for the present, but in another book,entitled "Little Jack Rabbit and Professor Crow," you'll hear more aboutthe little rabbits and their friends.

  THE END

  LITTLE JACK RABBIT BOOKS

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  BY DAVID CORY

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