MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



Suddenly it halted, and, spreading out a 

 camp-chair sort of an arrangement, it sat 

 down; and then I knew that my piece of 

 bark was the brown creeper, and the camp- 

 chair its tail! 



It was during a study of the ground in 

 the interests of my birds that I discovered 

 one of the sweetest secrets of the sod. My 

 attention was first attracted by a little 

 roughness in the sward loosely strewn 

 bits of grass with occasional suggestive 

 tufts of short grayish-brown hair and, 

 lifting the covering, I found four tiny, 

 smooth, furry balls: baby rabbits, hardly 

 half the size of my hand, with soft brown 

 eyes, quivering noses of conch-s'hell hue, 

 prophecies of long ears, and suggestions of 

 stumpy tails. Papa was probably away on 

 an expedition to a neighboring burrow, 

 perhaps canvassing with his chums the 

 most expeditious and unobtrusive methods 

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