“Look out there, little white animal!”
And, all at once, the next thing Flop Ear knew he was being lifted high in the air.
CHAPTER X
FLOP EAR HELPS SOME MICE
Flop Ear did not know what was happening to him. All he knew was that he was going up, much higher than the time he had hopped into the wood basket, and had been lifted up by the boy. And something seemed to be squeezing him, as though a snake had him.
The rabbit knew about snakes. There were some big ones in the wood where he had once lived, and his father and mother had told him that a snake could squeeze a rabbit to death. Once Flop Ear saw a little snake crawling along, and it put its tongue out and in so fast that the rabbit could hardly see it.
“I guess a snake has me,” thought Flop Ear. “Oh, dear! I’m going to ask him to let me go.”
So in the loudest voice he could command, Flop Ear cried:
“Please, Mr. Snake, let me go, and don’t squeeze me so.”