PIMPERNEL, SHEEP, AND RABBITS 33 



learning to make good use of your eyes and ears. 

 Go on making use of them, dear children, not only 

 during your holidays, but all the year round. 

 There is more to learn about in this wonderful 

 world of ours than the cleverest person can manage 

 in a lifetime. 



I was pleased that you all found out that 

 " Scarlet Pimpernel " was the other name for the 

 " Poor Man's Weather Glass "; also that you were 

 able to tell me that some Ladybirds had black 

 and yellow cloaks as well as red ones, and that the 

 number of spots on the cloaks was not always the 

 same. 



You were not all agreed as to why Sheep do not 

 feed near a Rabbit-hole. I believe the real answer 

 is that the Sheep do not like the smell of the 

 Rabbits. Some of you said that the Rabbit-holes 

 were all sandy outside and so there was no grass 

 for the Sheep to feed on. That is quite true of 

 some Rabbit-holes, but not all. Sometimes from 

 the inside of his burrow Bunny wants to make a 

 new opening to the outside air. He begins to dig 

 by throwing the earth backwards with his hind 

 legs, and when he has finished there is no sand at 

 the outside of that hole. At other times he makes 

 a new entrance from the outside, and then it is that 

 he strews the ground outside the hole with the 

 earth thrown backwards. 



I think every one of you found out that the 



