Mr. Crow looked astonished.
"And why should he?" he exclaimed. "You agreed to take, along with the foot, all the luck and everything else that goes[p. 111] with it. And if the rest of Jimmy Rabbit doesn't go with his left hind-foot, why—I should like to know what does!"
Peter Mink looked very sour. But pretty soon he brightened up.
"All right!" he said. "I get the whole of him, then—don't I?"
"You certainly do," said Mr. Crow. "And what's more, you have to carry him in your pocket, for that was part of the bargain."
Now, when you stop to remember that Jimmy Rabbit was four times bigger than Peter Mink, you can understand how angry Peter must have been. He saw right away that such a thing was impossible.
"I can't do that!" he cried.
"Then I declare the agreement to be broken," said Mr. Crow. "And I advise Jimmy Rabbit to run home at once, for I[p. 112] happen to know that his mother is looking for him."
Afterward, Peter Mink always claimed that there was no use trying to get the better of anybody that had the left hind-foot of a rabbit. He said that they certainly were lucky, and that he knew what he was talking about.
