“Well, I didn’t know it. I’m sorry if I hurt yours,” said Sam, who was really a good boy.
“Oh, I guess you didn’t hold Flop Ear long enough to hurt him,” went on Jimmie. “And now I’ll show you two tricks he can do, and then we’ll teach him another.”
Flop Ear jumped through the hoop, for the first trick, and then stood up with the piece of carrot on his nose, not offering to eat it until Jimmie clapped his hands.
“What do you think of that?” asked Jimmie of Sam.
“I think they are fine tricks. What else are you going to have him do?”
“I’m going to see if I can harness him up and make him draw a little wagon. I’ve got a small one that used to belong to my little brother. He’s too big to play with it now. Besides, he is away on a visit to my grandmother. So I’m going to take his wagon, and see if Flop Ear will pull it.”
This talk was all strange to Flop Ear, but he soon found out what it meant. Jimmie put his rabbit back in the box, with some cabbage leaves to nibble, and then the two boys went away. They came back in a little while with the small wagon, and some pieces of string. Jimmie also had a little leather collar that had once been on the neck of his pet cat, that had grown too big to wear it.
“We’ll put the collar on the rabbit,” Jimmie said, “and fasten the strings to it. Then we’ll fasten the strings to the wagon and when the bunny hops along he’ll pull the cart after him, like a pony.”