Of course I don’t suppose rabbits really call their game “tag,” as we do, but they have a game so much like it that I have given it that name in order that you would understand better. If I gave you the name in rabbit language it would be so hard to spell that I might break my typewriting machine in putting it on paper. So it is easier to call it tag.
“Oh, I don’t want to play tag,” said Pink Nose. “I want to sleep.”
“You have slept enough,” laughed Flop Ear. “Come on, get up and run about. If you sleep so much you will grow to be a lazy rabbit, Lady Munch says; and then you can’t run fast when there is danger.”
“There is no danger around here,” said Pink Nose, stretching out one leg. “I can’t see any.”
“Mother says there may be danger when you can’t see it,” put in Snuggle, coming out of the underground house just then.
“Will you play a game of tag with me?” asked Flop Ear of his sister.
“Yes, I will,” she answered. “Come on,” and away she ran.
The two rabbits were soon jumping about on the soft green moss and cuddling down among the leaves of the woods. They would chase each other, and jump over one another, just as you have often seen dogs and cats play their game of tag.
All this while Pink Nose was stretched out lazily in the sun, with his eyes closed. Pretty soon Flop Ear and Snuggle grew tired of playing rabbit-tag. Snuggle looked over at her sleeping brother, and said, with a laugh: