on any
longer, bul had i>- let go and drop. As it happened, he fell into a tall,
hollow sycamore stump without any hole at the bottom to gel oul
from, and there lie stayed until he was so hungry that lie had to eat
his own fui-. as the rabbil does ever since when he is starving. After
several days, when he was very weak with hunger, he heard children
playing outside around the trees. lie began to sing:
Cm a door and l""k at me;
I'm the prettiest thing you ever did aee.
The children ran home and told their father, who came and began
to cut a hole in the tree. As lie chopped away tin' Rabbit inside kepi
singing, "Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I'm so pretty." They
made the hole larger,other animals. It was -aid
that he had the finest coat of all. but no one knew just what it was like.
because it was a lone- time since anyone had seen him. They did not
even know exactly where he lived — only the general direction; but
they knew he would come to the council when the word gol out.
Now the Rabbil wanted the verdict for himself, so when it began to
look as if it might go to the Otter he studied up apian to cheat him out
of it. He asked a few sly questions until he learned what trail the
Otterwould take to gel to the council place. Then, without saying any-
thing, he went on ahead and after four days' travel he met the Otter
and knew him at -e by hi-