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mble's second summer rolled around he was big enough and old enough to prowl through the woods and fields much as he pleased. He was a Spike Horn. And he felt fit to go to the carrot patch without waiting for anybody to show him the way. So one night he stole down the hillside pasture, across the meadow, and jumped the fence into Farmer Green's garden. He saw at once that somebody was there ahead of him. It was Jimmy Rabbit. He was very busy with one of Farmer Green's cabbages. "I've come down to try the carrots," said Nimble. Jimmy Rabbit made no reply, except to nod his head slightly. He was eating so fast that he really couldn't speak just then. "Are these carrots?" Nimble inquired, as he looked about at the big cabbages, which crossed the garden in long rows. Jimmy Rabbit shook his head. "They seem to be good," said Nimble, "whatever they are. I'll taste of one." And he did. In fact he tasted of three or four of them, eating their centers out neatly. Meanwhile Jimmy Rabbit was becoming uneasy. And at last he spoke. "I thought," he said, "you told me you had come down here to try the carrots." "So I did," Nimble answered. "But I don't know where the carrots are." "Why didn't you say so before?" Jimmy Rabbit asked him. And without waiting for a reply he cried, "Follow me! I'll show you." And he hopped off briskly, with Nimble after him. Soon Jimmy Rabbit came to a halt. "Here it is!" he said. "Here's the carrot patch. Help yourself!" And then he hopped away again, back to his supper of cabbages. [Illustration: Nimble Deer Followed Jimmy Rabbit. _Page 57_] Nimble Deer began to eat the carrot tops. And he was greatly disappointed. "They're not half as good as those great round balls," he muttered. And he turned away from the carrots, to go back and join Jimmy Rabbit. But he hadn't gone far when he met Jimmy bounding along in a great hurry. "Old dog Spot!" Jimmy Rabbit gasped as he whisked past Nimble. "He's out to-night and he's coming this way." In one leap Nimble sprang completely around and followed Jimmy Rabbit across the meadow, up through the pasture and over the stone wall into the woods. There they lost each other. The next morning Nimble met his mother along the ridge that ran down toward Cedar Swamp. "I went down to the carrot patch last night," he told her. "And I must say I don't see why you're so fond of carrots. They're
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