Mr. Rabbit's Wedding

Mr. Rabbit's Wedding
Hollow Tree Stories

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Mr. Rabbit's Wedding by Albert Bigelow Paine

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1915

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Hollow Tree Stories

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Little Jack Rabbit and Bunty Bun -- Cousin Redfield and the molasses -- Mr. Bear's early spring call -- Mr. Jack Rabbit brings a friend -- Mr. Rabbit's wedding.

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"One day when Cousin Redfield was looking at the jug he had an idea. Just outside of the cave his father had made a bear-ladder for Reddie to learn to climb on. A bear-ladder is a piece of a tree set up straight in the ground. It has short, broken-off limbs, and little bears like to run up and down on it, and big bears, too, for it gives them exercise and keeps them in practice for climbing real trees.

"When Reddie had the idea, he ran out and looked at his bear-ladder; then he ran back and looked at the jug. If only that bear-ladder was in the cave, he thought, he could walk right up it and get the jug and have the best time in the world. The bear-ladder would go in the cave, for it was a very high cave, and the ladder was not a very tall one.

"But the bear-ladder was fast to the ground, and at first Reddie couldn't budge it. He worked and pushed and tugged, but it would not move. Then he happened to think that perhaps if he climbed up to the top of it, and swung his weight back and fo

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