“So that’s why he didn’t come to school to-day,” said Nurse Jane sadly.
“And I didn’t feel like coming either,” spoke Susie, crying some more. “I tried to find Sammie, but I couldn’t. Oh dear! Boo hoo!”
“We all tried to find him,” said Mr. Littletail sadly.
“But we can’t,” added Mrs. Littletail still more sadly. “Our Sammie is gone! The bad boy has him!”
“Oh, that is awful!” cried Bully. “But I’ll see if I can’t find him for you.”
So Bully hopped off through the woods, hoping he could find where the boy lived who had taken Sammie away with him.
“And if I find him I’ll help Sammie to get away,” thought Bully. So he went on and on, but for a long time he couldn’t find Sammie. For, listen, the boy who had caught the little rabbit had taken Sammie home, and had made a cage for him.
“I’m going to keep you forever,” said the boy, looking in through the wire cage at Sammie. “I’ve always wanted a rabbit and now I have one.” Well, poor Sammie asked the boy to let him go, but the boy didn’t understand rabbit language, and maybe he wouldn’t have let the bunny go, anyhow.
Well, it was getting dark, and Sammie was very much frightened in his cage, and he was wondering whether any of his friends would find him, and help him escape.
“I’ll call out loud, so they’ll know where to look for me,” he said, and he grunted as loudly as he could and whistled through his twinkling nose.