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They must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show

at all, and they changed shape in a queer way when they moved;

one minute they were long and thin and the next minute fat and

bunchy, instead of always staying the same like he did. Their feet

padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him,

twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which

side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump

generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it.

They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.

They stared at him, and the little Rabbit stared back. And all the

time their noses twitched.

"Why don't you get up and play with us?" one of them asked.

"I don't feel like it," said the Rabbit, for he didn't want to explain

that he had no clockwork.

"Ho!" said the furry rabbit. "It's as easy as anything," And he gave a

big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs.

"I don't believe you can!" he said.

"I can!" said the little Rabbit. "I can jump higher than anything!"

He meant when the Boy threw him, but of course he didn't want to

say so.

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