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Something has caught me by the leg! Run home, Susie, as fast as you can, and tell papa!" Susie was so frightened that she began to cry, but, as she was a brave little rabbit girl, she started off toward the underground house. When she got there she jumped right down the front door hole, and called out: "Oh, mamma! Oh, papa! Sammie is caught!
He has sold a great many at large prices, but the most valuable he keeps in his mansion in England, so he informed me. He said that he regretted that he had not brought several with him, but the risk was too great, and the pictures were so big that it was difficult to transport them so far." "H'm," Sammie grunted, as he went on with his luncheon, and nothing more was said then about the artist.
"We must get away from here as quickly as we can." "Why?" asked Sammie Littletail. "Because," said Bully, "that bird will eat us. My father warned me never to stay near that bird. Let us go away at once." "What sort of a bird is it?" asked Sammie, who now had no wish to jump. "I'm sure it can't be very harmful.
"Very well," answered the rabbit, "though I would much rather see you. But go ahead and I'll follow, for I must find my fortune." So the old gentleman rabbit saw the grass wiggling and he followed that, and he kept thinking of how rich he would soon be, and how many nice things he would buy for Sammie and Susie Littletail.
She was gone some time, and when she flew back to the ground, where Sammie and Susie were waiting for her, the children asked: "Did you like it?" "I think it will do very well," replied Mrs. Wren. "It is a little larger than I need, and there are not the improvements I am used to. There is no hot and cold water and no bathroom, but then I suppose I can bathe in the brook, so that is no objection.
Often they would pretend to be digging for gold, as they had heard Sammie Brown tell of his father having done, but they had given up hoping to find any. "But we might find my locket," said Rose. "And we might find that queer box the tide washed away before we could see what was in it," said Russ. "I wish we could find that."
"What are you going to do?" "I'm going to get this turnip down," answered Buddy. "It is a fine one; but it is hanging quite high. I'll give you some when I pull it down," for Buddy Pigg was very kind, you know. Well, he stood up again, and was just about to step a little closer, so he could grab the turnip, when Sammie cried out: "Here, Buddy! Come right away from that!
They had begun to worry about her, and Sammie was just going to start off to look for her. So Susie told how the fairy carrot had brought her home, and Uncle Wiggily said: "Well, there are certainly queer things happening nowadays. I never would have believed it if you hadn't told me."
But would you kindly be so good as to let me see those eggs? I never saw any colored ones." "Well," answered Sammie, "I am in a hurry, but you may have one peep." So he opened the top of the basket and there, sure enough, were the eggs, the green, the blue, the pink, the Johnnie red and the skilligimink colored ones and all. "Oh, how lovely!" cried the bad dog, sniffing the air again.
"We never spoil trees," declared Sammie, though he just then remembered that his Uncle, Wiggily Longears, had once said something about apple-tree bark being very good to eat. "There's another reason," went on the squirrel, chattering away. "What is it?" asked Sammie.
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