“How can you keep them?” said Hawk-Eye. “They’ll run away.”
“We can tie them by their legs,” said Firetop.
“We can cut sticks and drive them down in the ground, and keep the rabbits inside the sticks,” cried Firefly.
“What will you cut them with?” asked Hawk-Eye.
“With your stone axe,” Firefly answered as quick as a wink.
Hawk-Eye looked very solemn. “Will you be sure to bring it back to the cave, if I let you take my axe?” he said.
“Of course,” cried the Twins. They took the axe at once and rushed out to begin the fence of sticks, while Hawk-Eye tied the rabbits by their hind legs to a little tree near the cave.
When they finished the fence the next day, I regret to say the stone axe was nowhere to be found, and it was three days before it turned up under a bush where they had cut sticks.
While the children were busy fencing in the rabbits, Limberleg told Hawk-Eye about the raft.