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THE STORY OF
A FIERCE BAD RABBIT

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THE STORY OF

A FIERCE BAD RABBIT

BY

BEATRIX POTTER

Author of
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.



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LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE & CO., Ltd.
AND NEW YORK

[All rights reserved]

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the fierce bad rabbit

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THIS is a fierce bad Rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

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THIS is a nice gentle Rabbit. His mother has given him a carrot.
nice bunny sitting on bench

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bad rabbit lstanding on bench leaning over good rabbit

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THE bad Rabbit would like some carrot.

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HE doesn't say "Please." He takes it!
bad rabbit takes carrot and pushed gentle rabbit

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bad rabbit scratching gentle rabbit

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AND he scratches the good Rabbit very badly.

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THE good Rabbit creeps away, and hides in a hole. It feels sad.
gentle rabbit hiding

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THIS is a man with a gun.
hunter walking

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hunter seens bad rabbit sitting on bench

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HE sees something sitting on a bench. He thinks it is a very funny bird!

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bad rabbit with runter faintly in background

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HE comes creeping up behind the trees.

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AND then he shoots—Bang![39]
hunter aiming

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a swril of ears, carrot and fluffy tail

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THIS is what happens—

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BUT this is all he finds on the bench, when he rushes up with his gun.
hunter running up to bench now with only a carrot and fluffy tail on it

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THE good Rabbit peeps out of its hole,
gentle rabbit looking out of hole at hunter running off

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fierce bad rabbit running off without tail

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AND it sees the bad Rabbit tearing past—without any tail or whiskers!
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45265 ***