. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . it becomes perfectly white. I wonder if you knowwhy it changes colors in this queer way. The reasonis that in summer when there are grasses and leavesand flowers it has colored fur, and in winter whenthere is snow on the ground it has white fur andlooks just the same as the snow, so that in this wayyou can hardly see it when it is on the snow. Biggeranimals and tremendous birds such as the chickenhawk cannot easily see it or catch and kill it. But the little Ermine didnt know this. One day while itwas running across the snow it saw Cotton
. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . it becomes perfectly white. I wonder if you knowwhy it changes colors in this queer way. The reasonis that in summer when there are grasses and leavesand flowers it has colored fur, and in winter whenthere is snow on the ground it has white fur andlooks just the same as the snow, so that in this wayyou can hardly see it when it is on the snow. Biggeranimals and tremendous birds such as the chickenhawk cannot easily see it or catch and kill it. But the little Ermine didnt know this. One day while itwas running across the snow it saw Cottontail, the rabbit, whowas sitting up very straight because he was frightened. Rab- 33 34 THE WISHING-FAIRYS ANIMAL FRIENDS bits are frightened of the Ermine, because ermine can runeven quicker than they can, and ermine eat rabbits. Theyleap much faster than a rabbit can jump, and then theypounce on the rabbit and their sharp little teeth fasten in therabbits neck, and that is the end of the Cottontail saw the Ermine he crouched down, hoping.
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