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probably all right because it just had to 
be. Besides,—that arrangement left lots 
of delicious roots and clover for Mollie’s 
family and her very numerous relatives on 
Round-Top. What she couldn’t under¬ 
stand was why anything should be willing 
to or want to eat up a rabbit! That 
was the hard puzzle that Mollie had 
to solve. She could not understand 
that Mrs. Lynx was not being merely 
cruel when she sprang on a plump 
rabbit or a partridge. Poor Mollie 
could not see that Mother Nature had 
given the Lynx family and the Foxes and 
the Weasels their natures and tastes and 
that, after all, Mother Lynx was only do¬ 
ing just as Nature told her to do when she 
went hunting. So,—little Mrs. Rabbit 
gave up trying to solve the puzzle and 
went out and had a glorious dance in the 
woodland path, snatching a delicious root 
here and a bud there and, altogether, 
