Page 21 - My FlipBook

"Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit.

That was a dreadful question, for the Velveteen Rabbit had no

hind legs at all! The back of him was made all in one piece, like a

pincushion. He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other

rabbits wouldn't notice.

"I don't want to!" he said again.

But the wild rabbits have very sharp eyes. And this one stretched

out his neck and looked.

"He hasn't got any hind legs!" he called out. "Fancy a rabbit

without any hind legs!" And he began to laugh.

"I have!" cried the little Rabbit. "I have got hind legs! I am sitting

on them!"

"Then stretch them out and show me, like this!" said the wild

rabbit. And he began to whirl round and dance, till the little

Rabbit got quite dizzy.

"I don't like dancing," he said. "I'd rather sit still!"

But all the while he was longing to dance, for a funny new tickly

feeling ran through him, and he felt he would give anything in the

world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.

10