Thistledown the rabbit had looked. And looked. And looked again. Yes, they seemed like the wool ones (rabbits don't always use the same words for animals as we do). They looked like them but something wasn't right. Thistledown sniffed the air- a trick that his great great grandfather Fiver had taught his great grandfather and then his grandfather and so on down the line of rabbits. 'It saved our warren, young Thistledown', is what his grandad liked to say. Thistledown hadn't always listened- you could only hear the same story so many times, he had thought. But now he wished he had listened more carefully to that wise old rabbit. What was the other thing he'd said? He thought so hard that his ears stood back as they always did when he was concentrating. Oh yes. the white wool ones. If they have teeth there is only one thing you can do and that is to run. As fast as you can.
Thistledown the rabbit had looked. And looked. And looked again. Yes, they seemed like the wool ones (rabbits don't always use the same words for animals as we do). They looked like them but something wasn't right. Thistledown sniffed the air- a trick that his great great grandfather Fiver had taught his great grandfather and then his grandfather and so on down the line of rabbits. 'It saved our warren, young Thistledown', is what his grandad liked to say. Thistledown hadn't always listened- you could only hear the same story so many times, he had thought. But now he wished he had listened more carefully to that wise old rabbit. What was the other thing he'd said? He thought so hard that his ears stood back as they always did when he was concentrating. Oh yes. the white wool ones. If they have teeth there is only one thing you can do and that is to run. As fast as you can.
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