Then Solomon said: “Give this woman the child, for it is hers. Only a mother’s heart can feel such sacrifice.” And he ordered the child given to its true mother.
HOW THE RABBIT GOT ITS COTTON TAIL
If we desire to avoid trouble we should always do as we are told.
Once upon a time there lived a mother rabbit with her baby rabbit in the midst of a deep forest. Her love was very great for Bunny. She thought that no other rabbit in all the woods had such a straight pretty little tail.
All rabbits had short straight tails then and I suppose they would have been that way until this day had it not been for this foolish little Bunny that I am telling you about.
For a long time he was content to play around the door of his little house, but by and by when he began to feel like a grown-up rabbit, he wanted to go away to Farmer Green’s turnip patch. When his mother shook her head and said “No,” he wrinkled his nose and became a very cross little rabbit.
When night came and his mother had fallen asleep in her bed of warm dried leaves, Bunny crept silently out of the house on his cushioned feet up to the dark world and ran as fast as he could.
Finally he came to a great field and right in the midst he could see the farmer’s house, and on one side the garden. Straight toward this garden he ran at such a pace it did not take him long to reach the fence and find a hole to crawl through. Such a sight he saw! Rows and rows of juicy turnips, and fresh crisp lettuce, and round green cabbages. There was so much that he did not know what to taste first.