Raggylug 



enemies chance together, the one who first sees 

 the other can keep himself unseen by < freez- 

 ing ' and thus have all the advantage of choos- 

 ing the time for attack or escape. Only those 

 who live in the woods know the importance of 

 this • every wild creature and every hunter 

 must learn it ; all learn to do it well, but not 

 one of them can beat Molly Cottontail in the 

 doing. Rag's mother tau L ht him this trick 

 by example. When the white cotton cushion 

 that she always carried to sit on went bobbing 

 away through the woods, of course Rag ran his 

 hardest to keep up. But when Molly stopped 

 and 'froze,' the natural wish to copy made 

 him do the same. 



But the best lesson of all that Rag learned 

 from his mother was the secret of the Brierbrush. 

 It is a very old secret now, and to make it 

 plain you must first hear why the Brierbrush 

 quarrelled with the beasts. 



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