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tucked her babies into their warm nest and 
then sat down and nibbled some birch 
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buds very thoughtfully. 
Now, as we have said once before,— 
Mollie Rabbit was a very wise little 
mother but even her wisdom could not 
make her quite understand the plans of 
old Mother Nature very well. She really 
felt that it must be quite all right for 
Jimmy Weasel’s family to eat up the field- 
mice and groundhogs because these same 
field-mice and groundhogs ate up just the 
roots and clovers that she needed for her¬ 
self and her own little family. Of course, 
—Mollie wouldn’t actually wish to have 
Mrs. Lynx or Renny Fox or the Weasels 
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eat up a field-mouse or a groundhog! 
She never, never would wish for such a 
thing as that but,—if old Mother Nature 
had made these animals want to eat mice 
and red squirrels and grey squirrels and 
groundhogs, why,—Mollie felt,—it was 
