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what kind of a book this is."
So Bunny jumped off the stump and ran to find Mother Rabbit.
"Mother Rabbit," he said, "what kind of a book is this?
"There are no pictures, and I can not find one story to read."
"That is a diary," said Mother Rabbit. "You must write the stories in the book yourself."
"What stories shall I write?" asked Bunny.
"You can write about the good times you and Bobtail and Billy have, playing in the woods," said Mother Rabbit.
"What fun!" said Bunny. "I am going to write a story in my book this very morning."
So Bunny Rabbit ran back to the big stump.
But he did not know just how to write a story.
He had never written one before.
He thought, and thought, and thought.
Bobtail and Billy hopped up to see what their brother was doing.
"Come down and play with us," said Bobtail.
But Bunny shook his head, and shook his long ears.
"Run away now," he said; "I am going to write a story."
"What story are you going to write?" asked Billy.
But Bunny did not answer. He had just thought of something funny.
It was about the slide on the long hill beside the pond.
And about the way Billy slid down,--right into the cold water.
Bobtail and Billy ran away and left Bunny alone on the stump.
Ho was very busy writing in his maple-leaf book.
When he finished the story, he hid his book in the hollow tree.
"No one will find it there," he said to himself, as he hopped off toward home.
"I'll write a story every day until the book is full."
But one day I went walking in the woods.
I found the hollow tree, and I found the little maple-leaf book.
"Bunny Rabbit's Diary" was the name of the book.
It was all full of stories about the three little rabbits that lived in the woods.

BILLY'S SLIDE
I
One morning in winter Bunny opened his eyes, just as the big round sun peeped up from behind the hills.
He jumped up and shook himself.
Then he pulled Bobtail's long ears to wake him up.
Bobtail rolled out of bed, and that waked Billy.
"Oh, I am so sleepy!" said Billy. "I don't want to get up now."
"Let's run out and find something for breakfast," said Bunny. "I am as hungry as a bear."
"Yes, let's run out and find some breakfast," said Bobtail.
"I don't want to go far," said Billy. "It is too cold."
The three little rabbits hopped off through the woods, hunting for something good to eat.
The ground was covered with snow and they could not find very much.
As they hopped along they were talking about what they could do to have some fun.
"Let's make a long slide to-day," said Bunny.
"Oh, let's make a big pile of snowballs," said Bobtail.
"Let's make a snow rabbit," said Billy. "We can make it in front of our house."
Bunny jumped up and down in the snow. He made a snowball and threw it at Billy.
"Oh! I like to play in the snow," he said. "I like to play in the snow."
Plump! Something hit Bunny on the head.
"I like to play, too," some one called to the rabbits.
Bunny looked up to see who was talking.
Plump! Something hit him right on the end of his nose.
"Hello, Bunny!" called Bobby Gray Squirrel. "I hit you that time."
"Come down here and I will catch you," said Bunny, as he rubbed his little pink nose.
But Bobby only laughed and ran higher up among the branches of the oak tree.
"I will catch you some day," said Bunny as he hopped away.
"Oh, no!" answered Bobby. "You can never catch me. You cannot climb a tree."
The three rabbits soon found some tender little roots hidden under the blanket of snow.
"This is a good breakfast," said Bunny.
"Yes, it is a very good breakfast," said Billy, as he nibbled on the root he had found.
At last Bunny jumped up and shook his long ears.
"I have finished my breakfast," he said.
"So have I," said Billy.
"So have I," said Bobtail.
"Now we can make a long slide over in the meadow," said Bunny.
"I know where we can make the best slide," said Bobtail.
"Where, where?" asked Bunny.
"Over on the hill beside the pond," said Bobtail.
"That is too far away," said Billy. "I think I will go home."
But Bunny and Bobtail would not let him. They took hold of his hand, and made him hop along with them through the snow.
"Where are you going?" called Bobby Gray Squirrel.
"Follow us and you will see," answered Bunny.
"Oh, no," said Bobby. "I like best to run about in this big tree.
"After I have found something to eat I shall curl up in my warm nest and go to sleep.
"Summer is the time to play, but winter is the time to sleep."

II
The little rabbits hopped off through the woods.
Soon they came to the long hill.
They stood at the top of the hill and looked down