"Did you find a nest-house?" asked Mamma Littletail of the bird.
"No," was the answer, "I think I shall have to stay with you another
night, if you will let me. Perhaps I shall find a nest to-morrow."
So she stayed with the Littletail family another night, and to-morrow
night I will tell you how she found a nest.
VIII
SUSIE AND SAMMIE FIND A NEST
Sammie Littletail was up early the next morning. He had not slept very
well, for Uncle Wiggily Longears had groaned very much because of the
pain in his leg where he was shot. Sammie thought if he got up early,
and went for some nice, fresh carrots for his uncle, it would make the
old rabbit feel better.
While Sammie was digging up some carrots, in a field not far from the
burrow where he lived, he saw the same gray squirrel that had warned him
about not going into the deer park.
"What are you doing now?" asked the squirrel. "It seems to me you are
always doing something."
"I am digging carrots for Uncle Wiggily Longears that was shot," said
Sammie.
"That is a very nice thing to do," the gray squirrel said. "You are a
better boy rabbit than I thought you were.
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