“Oh, where did you get them?” asked his mother. “I am so glad you found them!”
“I got them in a field,” said Flop Ear. “At first a dog was going to chase me away, but he did not, and was kind to me, letting me take some leaves.”
“That’s nice,” said Lady Munch, as she nibbled a bit of sweet cabbage leaf. “This will make a very fine dinner for all of us.”
The Bunnys were very glad to get the cabbage, and a few days later Mr. and Mrs. Bunny went to the field, which Flop Ear showed them. Don was there again, and he was good to the rabbits, letting them take as much cabbage as they wanted. And, after all, they did not take very much, and the man who owned the field never missed it.
“If you didn’t eat it the worms might get it,” said Don, kindly, “so take as many heads as you need.”
It was two or three days after this that Flop Ear, going through the woods on a short cut to the cabbage field, saw a black animal walking along—an animal about as large as himself.
“Oh, I wonder what that is?” he said. “It looks so black that it may be something dangerous.”
Then the other animal said: “Mew mew!” and asked:
“Who are you?”
“Why, I am Flop Ear, the funny rabbit,” was the answer.