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RABBITS

1. This is a picture of Flo and her white rabbit. Her brother gave it to her when it was quite young.

2. It is very tame. It lets Flo take it in her lap and feed it with cabbage leaves and other things. Look how it sits

peeping over her shoulder at the green leaves she holds in her hands!

3. Pet rabbits are not all white. Some have black or gray coats. Wild rabbits are brown above and gray below.

4. What long ears the rabbit has! It must hear very well with such long ears! Stroke them.How soft they are!

5. Did you know that wild rabbits live under the ground? Yes; many of them live together in a big house with a great many holes. When an enemy comes in by one hole, the timid rabbits run away out by another.

6. The holes are very small. When a rabbit runs into its house, it has to lay its long ears fl atdown upon its head, or it cannot get in at all.

7. Rabbits stay in their houses most of the day. In the evening and early morning, when all is quiet, they come out and nibble the grass. It is pretty to watch the young ones playing together and tumbling over each other.

8. If they hear the least noise, they scamper of to their holes. You can see their little whitetails bob up and down as they jump through the grass.

9. Rabbits cannot run and walk like cats and dogs, for their front legs are shorter than their hind ones. They can only jump.

WORD SPELLING

rab´-bits be-low´ tim´-id least

cab´-bage stroke nib´-ble noise

shoul´-der en´-e-mytum´-bling scam´-per

WORD EXERCISE

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