The Little Rabbit

There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. One evening when the boy was going to bed he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana said take your old bunny he'll do to sleep with you and she dragged the rabbit out by one ear, put him into the boy's arms. At first he found it rather uncomfortable for the boy hugged him very tight and sometimes he rolled over on him. He missed two of those long moonlight hours in the nursery but all the house was silent and his talks with the skin horse were gone. The boy used to talk to him and made nice tunnels firm under the bed clothes that he said were like the