A soldier once lived at our house.

He gave me two rabbits.

They came in a box.

This is how it happened:

I was playing out-of-doors.

My daddy called me.

He said that there was a surprise for me in the house.

I went into the house, and looked everywhere.

At last I found the box with two rabbits in it which the soldier had given to me.

You may be sure that I was glad.

The first thing I did was to thank the soldier for this surprise.

My daddy made a house for the rabbits.

We kept it in the back yard.

We fed the rabbits dandelion and cabbage leaves.

We gave them carrots, too.

One day one of the rabbits ran away.

My mother told me she saw him go under the porch.

A friend named Alex crawled under the porch and got the rabbit.

Then we put Bunny back into his own house.

My rabbits sniff in such a funny way.

Now I can sniff like a rabbit too.

I call my rabbits “Soldier Rabbits,” because a soldier gave them to me.