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find him."
So away they went into the Friendly Forest, and they looked all around,
but, of course, there was no little rabbit that looked like Billy Bunny
anywhere in sight. So Uncle Lucky and Mr. O'Hare got out, and after
tying the automobile to a tree, they set out in different directions to find
the little bunny. And Uncle Lucky went along a little path and Mr.
O'Hare followed a small brook, and after a while the old gentleman
rabbit heard a bird singing:
"I saw a little rabbit A-sitting by a tree, And I should say he'd lost his
way-- That's how he looked to me."
"Where did you see him?" asked Uncle Lucky excitedly. But what the
little bird replied you must wait to hear in the next story.

STORY V.
BILLY BUNNY AND THE RUNAWAY DOG.
You remember in the last story just as Uncle Lucky asked the little bird
to tell him where Billy Bunny was I had to leave off for there was no
more room in the story for me to add another word? Well, what the
little bird said was:
"Follow the path, Mr. Lucky Lefthindfoot, 'till you come to a bridge,
and then turn to your right, and pretty soon, if the little bunny hasn't
hopped away, you'll find your lost nephew."
So Uncle Lucky started right off. He didn't wait to even dust off his old
wedding stovepipe hat, and by and by he came to the bridge. But oh
dear me! Right in the middle of it stood a big dog, and when he saw the
old gentleman rabbit he gave a loud bark and ran at him.
And what do you think the dear old bunny did? He honked on his
automobile horn, which he had in his paw, and this frightened the dog

so dreadfully that he turned around and ran away so fast that he would
have left his tail a thousand miles behind him if it hadn't been tied on
the way dogs' tails are, you know.
And after that Uncle Lucky crossed the bridge and turned to his right
and pretty soon he saw Billy Bunny under a bush looking very
miserable and unhappy. But when he heard his Uncle Lucky's voice,
for the old gentleman rabbit gave a cry of delight as soon as he saw him,
the little rabbit looked as happy as he had before he was lost.
"Here's an apple pie for you," said the dear, kind old gentleman rabbit,
taking a lovely pie out of his pocket. "I knew you'd rather have
something to eat than a million carrot cents."
And of course the little rabbit would, for he was so hungry he could
have eaten brass tacks, or maybe iron nails.
"Now come along with me," said Uncle Lucky. "We'll go back to the
Luckymobile. Your cousin, Mr. O'Hare, went the other way to look for
you, so I suppose we'll have a dreadful time to find him. But, never
mind, I've found you." And dear, affectionate Uncle Lucky hugged his
small nephew, he was so glad to be with him once more.
Well, after they reached the automobile they honked and honked on the
horn hoping Mr. O'Hare would hear them. But I guess he didn't, for he
never came back, although they waited until it was almost 13 o'clock.
"We'll have to go home without him," said Uncle Lucky at last. And I
guess he was wise not to wait any longer, for it was growing dark, and
to drive an automobile through a forest is not an easy thing to do at
night. And just then, all of a sudden, Willie Wind came blowing
through the tree tops. When he saw the two little bunnies he said:
"Your cousin, Mr. O'Hare, has fallen into a deep hole over yonder."
And Willie Wind pointed down the Friendly Forest Trail. In the next
story you shall hear how Uncle Lucky and Billy Bunny found their
cousin, Mr. O'Hare.

STORY VI.
BILLY BUNNY AND MR. O'HARE'S ESCAPE.
You remember in the last story how Willie Wind whispered to Billy
Bunny and Uncle Lucky that their cousin, Mr. O'Hare, had fallen into a
deep hole? Well, it didn't take the two little rabbits more than five short
seconds and maybe five and a half hops to reach the spot, and then they
looked over the edge, but very carefully, you know, for fear they might
fall in, and there, sure enough, way down at the bottom was Mr. O'Hare
looking very miserable indeed.
"Keep up your courage!" cried Uncle Lucky in as cheerful a voice as he
could muster, and then he looked around to find a rope or a ladder. But
of course there were not any ropes and