“So do I,” said Flop Ear. “Will you have some cabbage?”
“No, thank you. I never eat it,” Don said.
Two or three days after this something dreadful happened to Flop Ear.
It happened to the other rabbits, too, and made them very sad, at least for a time, so I’ll tell you about it.
This is how it was. They had all been away together getting some cabbage in the field that Don watched over, the dog letting them take as much as they could eat, and now they were on their way home.
All of a sudden there sounded a loud noise.
“Bang! Bang!” it went twice.
“Oh, my goodness!” cried Papa Bunny. “It’s a hunter man with a gun! Oh, my! Run everybody! Run, and hide!”
“And don’t all run together,” added Lady Munch. “Scatter! Some go one way and some another. If we all keep together the hunter man will see us more easily.”
“Bang!” went the gun again, and then a dog—not Don—barked.