. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . SHING-FAIRY 19 He was thinking that he had never had so many funny thingshappen to him, when he saw four Brownies pulling seemed too heavy for them, and they were having a veryhard time with it; so he hopped over to ask if he could help,and what do you think they were pulling? A carrot! Justone carrot! But you see the Brownies are not half as big asa carrot, so it must have been awfully heavy for them tocarry. As Cottontail was terribly hungry he ate it all up, and thenhe told the kind little Brownies good-by and started back
. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . SHING-FAIRY 19 He was thinking that he had never had so many funny thingshappen to him, when he saw four Brownies pulling seemed too heavy for them, and they were having a veryhard time with it; so he hopped over to ask if he could help,and what do you think they were pulling? A carrot! Justone carrot! But you see the Brownies are not half as big asa carrot, so it must have been awfully heavy for them tocarry. As Cottontail was terribly hungry he ate it all up, and thenhe told the kind little Brownies good-by and started back klip-perty-kip, klipperty-kip, klipperty-kip, to show his daddy andmother and sister and brother rabbits his nice new long ears. All the way home he could hear the things the birds weretelling one another, w7hat the bees \vere whispering to the flow-ers—what the breeze was singing to the earth, and he couldeven hear all the little voices in the woods that no one else canhear. Now you know why the rabbit has long ears; because he canhear
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