"Ha! ha! I see you," said the Girabbit at the second, popping his neck a yard or two out of the chimney. He heard them, not saw them, but they did not know that. They looked up and saw him, and that was enough. They were astonished. Indeed most of them fell flat on the spot. (You see Mr. Bliss had so far kept the Girabbit quite secret, because he did not want to pay Sergeant Boffin for a licence for keeping him, as he was sure it would be double price - quite 15/- a year. The Girabbit was trained to dive down a hole when strangers came up the hill and up to now no one else had seen more than his head. This day was an exception - because the Girabbit had quite forgotten where it was, and thought it was in its own hole!).

"Get up, get up!" squeaked the Girabbit. "Get up, and go away, or I shall come out of my hole and jump on you"; and in popped his head. Then they got up and went (you can see them on the last page) - very quickly. All except the bears who are not particularly frightened. They went behind a hedge.

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