CHAPTER III 
THE INVASION OF GARRY'S HILL 
FLUFF-BUTTON and Cuni re-opened the big burrow 
at the top of Garry's Hill. Garry's Hill is a big 
grassy mound just outside Knockdane, with one 
stunted hawthorn growing on the top. Long ago 
many rabbits had lived here, but a mysterious 
epidemic had swept them all away, and the grass 
grew thickly over the entrance to the holes. Fluff- 
Button lay out in the woods all day and worked 
at the burrow at night. Cuni was never very far 
away from him at this time, and often made her 
form close to his ; but she never allowed him to 
touch her or follow her about. 
By and by she dug out another tunnel further 
down the field, and took particular pains that her 
mate should not find out its existence. For more 
than a month she lived apart, and he only saw 
her occasionally ; but one fine day she returned to 
the burrow with six fluffy atoms hopping after her. 
At first Fluff-Button was disposed to resent their 
intrusion on his privacy, but Cuni discreetly kept 
her family away from his own particular dormitory, 
and led them out to feed at a respectful distance. 
The six youngsters throve, for Garry's Hill was 
so exposed on all sides that if ever hawk, cat, fox 
