They were not little puppies at all.

They were little rabbits.

I do not know where the mother rabbit was.

I never saw her.

But every day Happy would go into the field.

She watched to see that no harm should come to the little rabbits.

One day I heard Happy barking in the field.

When I came near, I found that she was barking because the rabbits had disappeared.

Happy missed them very much, and for many days she seemed lonesome without her baby rabbits.

Now, was not Happy a queer mother dog?