THE STORY OF A RABBIT.
I am going to relate a true story of a boy and his rabbit. It was on Staten Island, in the year 1879.
I once had a middle-sized rabbit, and one day I saw a boy that I knew passing by my house. I asked him to come and see what a nice rabbit I had. He liked it so much that he offered me twenty-six cents; so I sold the rabbit to him, and some bran too. The next time that I saw him I asked him how his rabbit was, and he told me that the very day he bought the rabbit a dog saw it, and bit its throat so that it died instantly.
Joseph Francis W.
What a shame!
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