Bumper, The White Rabbit

Bumper, The White Rabbit

Project Gutenberg's Bumper, The White Rabbit, by George Ethelbert
Walsh This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and
with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away
or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Bumper, The White Rabbit
Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
Illustrator: Edwin John Prittie
Release Date: June 21, 2006 [EBook #18648]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUMPER,
THE WHITE RABBIT ***

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Twilight Animal Series
BUMPER THE WHITE RABBIT

By GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH
Author of "Bumper the White Rabbit," "Bumper the White Rabbit in
the Woods," "Bumper the White Rabbit and His Foes," "Bumper the
White Rabbit and His Friends," "Bobby Gray Squirrel," "Bobby Gray
Squirrel's Adventures," Etc.
Colored Illustrations by EDWIN JOHN PRITTIE
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA
TORONTO
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Illustration: Not until it approached very close did he duck his head
and look up]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contents
STORY I WHERE BUMPER CAME FROM 9 STORY II WHY
BUMPER WAS LEFT AT HOME 16 STORY III BUMPER IS SOLD
23 STORY IV WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DREADFUL HOUSE 30
STORY V BUMPER AND THE RED-HEADED GIRL 37 STORY VI
BUMPER AND CARLO 44 STORY VII BUMPER MEETS THE
SEWER RAT 51 STORY VIII BUMPER RUNS INTO A NEST OF
BATS 58 STORY IX BUMPER ESCAPES ON A RAFT 65 STORY X
BUMPER SEES HIS FIRST BLACK CROW 72 STORY XI
BUMPER MEETS A FOX 79 STORY XII BUMPER ADMIRED BY
THE BIRDS 86 STORY XIII BUMPER NEEDS A DOCTOR 93
STORY XIV BUMPER MEETS MR. BEAR 100 STORY XV
BUMPER FINDS HIS COUNTRY COUSINS 107 STORY XVI
BUMPER BECOMES THE WHITE KING OF THE RABBITS 114
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Illustrations

Not until it approached very close did he duck his head Frontispiece
and look up He couldn't believe it was anything but a magic carrot 40
They tried to land on his back and claw him 65
------------------------------------------------------------------------
TWILIGHT ANIMAL SERIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS FROM 4
TO 10 YEARS OF AGE
By GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH
LIST OF TITLES
1 BUMPER THE WHITE RABBIT 2 BUMPER THE WHITE
RABBIT IN THE WOODS 3 BUMPER THE WHITE RABBIT AND
HIS FOES 4 BUMPER THE WHITE RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS 5
BOBBY GRAY SQUIRREL 6 BOBBY GRAY SQUIRREL'S
ADVENTURES 7 BUSTER THE BIG BROWN BEAR 8 BUSTER
THE BIG BROWN BEAR'S ADVENTURES 9 WHITE TAIL THE
DEER 10 WHITE TAIL THE DEER'S ADVENTURES 11 WASHER,
THE RACCOON (Other titles in preparation)
Issued in uniform style with this volume PRICE 65 CENTS EACH,
Postpaid
EACH VOLUME CONTAINS COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
PRINTED IN U. S. A. Copyright 1922 by THE JOHN C. WINSTON
COMPANY Copyright MCMXVII by George E. Walsh
------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTRODUCTION TO THE TWILIGHT ANIMAL STORIES
By the Author
All little boys and girls who love animals should become acquainted
with Bumper the white rabbit, with Bobby Gray Squirrel, with Buster
the bear, and with White Tail the deer, for they are all a jolly lot, brave

and fearless in danger, and so lovable that you won't lay down any one
of the books without saying wistfully, "I almost wish I had them really
and truly as friends and not just storybook acquaintances." That, of
course, is a splendid wish; but none of us could afford to have a big
menagerie of wild animals, and that's just what you would have to do if
you went outside of the books. Bumper had many friends, such as Mr.
Blind Rabbit, Fuzzy Wuzz and Goggle Eyes, his country cousins; and
Bobby Gray Squirrel had his near cousins, Stripe the chipmunk and
Webb the flying squirrel; while Buster and White Tail were favored
with an endless number of friends and relatives. If we turned them all
loose from the books, and put them in a ten-acre lot--but no, ten acres
wouldn't be big enough to accommodate them, perhaps not a hundred
acres.
So we will leave them just where they are--in the books--and read
about them, and let our imaginations take us to them where we can see
them playing, skipping, singing, and sometimes fighting, and if we read
very carefully, and think as we go along, we may come to know them
even better than if we went out hunting for them.
Another thing we should remember. By leaving them in the books,
hundreds and thousands of other boys and girls can enjoy them, too,
sharing with us the pleasures of the imagination, which after all is one
of the greatest things in the world. In gathering them together in a real
menagerie, we would be selfish both to Bumper,