Atondido Stories
knife but I gained a basket. I lost my basket but I gained some
lettuce."
The rabbit was getting very hungry and how nice the lettuce
smelled! He took a bite. It was just the very best thing he had ev-
er tasted in all his life. "I don't care if I did lose my tail," said he,
"I've found something I like very much better."
From that day to this no rabbit has ever had a tail. Neither
has there ever been a rabbit who cared because he had no tail.
From that time to this there has never been a rabbit who did not
like lettuce to eat and who was not perfectly happy and content-
ed if there was plenty of it.
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