“Oh! This is fine!” thought Flop Ear. “I shall have a good dinner here. I wish the rest of the folks were with me to enjoy it too. This is just fine.”
Flop Ear picked out a nice tender cabbage, and ate some of the leaves. It was as good to him as candy is to you, and much better for a rabbit.
“If I had a trunk, like Tum Tum, the elephant,” said Flop Ear, “I might carry a lot of this cabbage with me, and when I became hungry again I could eat it. But I can’t do that. I can only carry a little; so I’ll just have to hop on and hope that I’ll find another field of the green heads, or perhaps a field of carrots. They would be fine too.”
Once more the funny bunny hopped on, his one floppy ear hanging down, and the other one sticking up straight. A little toad in the grass laughed as the bunny hopped past.
“What are you laughing at?” asked Flop Ear.
“At you,” answered the toad. “You look so funny. I hope you don’t mind?”
“Not a bit,” said Flop Ear. “Laugh all you like,” and the toad did, while the rabbit hopped on.
Flop Ear had not gone very much farther when he heard a funny little squealing, squeaking noise.
“Ha! I wonder what that is?” he asked himself. “I never heard a sound like that before. I must see what it is.”