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Little Jack Rabbit and Mr. Wicked Wolf

Chapter 28: ACORN COTTAGE
By David Cory
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A collection of illustrated children's vignettes that follow a young rabbit through holiday preparations, gift-giving, and everyday village adventures among anthropomorphic animal neighbors. Episodes range from merry Christmas scenes and playful mishaps with skates and sleds to tense encounters with a menacing wolf and a hungry hawk, and quiet moments of generosity, invention, and community life. Each short story presents gentle humor, small moral lessons, and buoyant resolutions as friends and family cooperate to solve problems and celebrate together, offering lighthearted, episodic tales intended for early readers.

ACORN COTTAGE

Mr. Wicked Wolf has a dreadful grin;
His teeth are bright and shiny like a piece of tin;
And wouldn’t you be frightened if he should say to you;
“I’ll eat you up before you count one billion twenty-two”?

Well, that’s what Mr. Wicked Wolf said just as I finished the story before this, and I would have added a P. S. and told you, only I was afraid you’d stay awake all night wondering how the little rabbit would ever get away. But never mind. I won’t let that dreadful wolf hurt him, not if I have to get a gun and go after him myself.

Mr. Wicked Wolf Runs Away From the Dog Tramp.

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Well, the little rabbit began to count just as fast as he could, and just as he reached nine thousand nine hundred and maybe a little more the Yellow Dog Tramp came by and gave a loud bark:

“Don’t hurt my bunny friend;
Get out of here, I say.
It’s safer far for you to be
A million miles away.”

And when Mr. Wicked Wolf heard that he turned around and ran home as fast as he could, and maybe faster.

“Come with me, little rabbit,” said the kind Yellow Dog Tramp. So they went into the wood and turned down a little path until they came to a tiny house under a big oak tree. And right over the front door was a sign:

“Acorn Cottage.”

“Who lives there?” asked Little Jack Rabbit.

“Wait and see,” said the Yellow Dog Tramp, and then he knocked three times and pretty soon a little Green Snake opened the door. She had on a little pink bonnet and a white apron and on the end of her tail was a pretty gold watch.

“What do you want?” she asked, for she was a very timid little snake, let me tell you, and was dreadfully afraid of tramps and burglars.

“My little rabbit friend would like to find his fortune,” said the Yellow Dog Tramp, “and I hear you are very wise and know how to tell fortunes better than a gypsy. So please tell my little bunny friend where his fortune is.”

“Come in,” said the little Green Snake. So Little Jack Rabbit and the Yellow Dog Tramp went into the little house, and pretty soon she told Little Jack Rabbit to sit down.

“You have two Liberty Bonds and three War Saving Stamps,” she said, after she had looked at the lines in his little paw, “and in three days and a half you will find a bright penny under a stone on the Shady Forest Trail. That will be the beginning of your fortune.” And then she coiled herself up and began to sway back and forth, and in the next story you shall hear what happened after that.