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Updated: June 28, 2025
A feeling of misgiving came suddenly over me; one fear above all others depressed my heart, and unconsciously I uttered it aloud: "I wonder whether in Russia rats find plenty to eat!" The snub face of Oddity grew very grave at a question which he could not answer, and whose importance he felt. But light-hearted Bright-eyes quickly relieved our apprehensions.
Bright-eyes told him that he ought to have been a cat, to sit purring on a mat before the fire, and lick the hand of some old maiden lady, who would feed him with porridge and milk. I said that he should be kept in a gentleman's house, with a bell round his neck, as rats sometimes are in Germany, to frighten their brethren away.
'Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore! That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, shall tend him no more. They may threaten and force as they will, He turns from her, shrinks from her still,
What say you, friend Ratto?" inquired he. "I have no mind for a long journey either by land or by sea," replied I in a melancholy tone; "I'll keep company with you for a day or two, Whiskerandos, but I would rather not return now to London. I will settle quietly for a time in the country near the spot where poor Oddity died!" "And you?" said Whiskerandos, turning to Bright-eyes.
"O, I didn't take them out, Miss Bright-eyes. I only put a little spruce gum over them." "Horace, I can't find auntie anywhere in this house," said Prudy, appearing at the parlor door. "Do you suppose she's gone off and hid?" "Yes, she's hid inside that old gown." "What do you mean?" "That's auntie, and her teeth's in," explained Fly.
This was bright-eyes, who bowed and smiled she always smiled and said, "How do you do?" Then rushed off to a drawer in search of something. "Miss St. Clair, will you come and be introduced to Miss Randolph?" The St. Clair walked up demurely and took my hand. Her words were in abrupt contrast. "Where are her things going, Miss Bentley?" I wondered that pretty lips could be so ungracious.
Among them was a little lady Rabbit called "Bright-eyes," from her leading characteristic as she sat gray in the gray brush. She was a good runner, but was especially successful with the fence-play that baffled the Coyotes. She made her nest out in an open pasture, an untouched tract of the ancient prairie. Here her brood were born and raised.
The witch interfered, of course, but the Prince said: 'Take it, and carry it about in the open air; the boy is quieter at night, to be sure, when he has been in the wood all day. So the widow took the child in her arms, and carried it to the marsh in the forest. There she sang as on the preceding day 'Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore!
"A fortnight's journey for a rat, should he travel by land," replied Bright-eyes: "we came down very comfortably in a river boat, which carried us to within five miles of this spot." "I have had enough of water for some time," said Whiskerandos; "and now that the fields are full of ripe corn, and the gardens of fruit, nothing so pleasant as a journey by land!
Whiskerandos, who, being a brown rat, could not be expected to feel the same regret as myself, now turned towards Bright-eyes, and asked him how far we were from London "For I long to be back in my old quarters," said he.
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