Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit: His Many Adventures

Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, a family of rabbits lived in the woods near the top of a mountain. There were six in the family, counting Flop Ear, the funny rabbit, and I speak of him first because this story is going to be mostly about him and his adventures, o...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

“What are you doing in these woods?” asked Mappo of Flop Ear, as soon as the merry monkey had seated himself on a soft cushion of green moss at the foot of the tree.

5. CHAPTER V

Flop Ear awoke in the morning feeling hungry. All he had to do was to reach out and eat part of his hay-bed in which he had slept. I think that was rather funny. It isn’t every...

3. CHAPTER III

“Oh, how good that tastes!” he said to himself. “I’ll eat my share here, and carry some to the folks at home. I can tell them where the field is, and they can come and get more...

6. CHAPTER VI

Flop Ear, at first, was so frightened at finding himself in the boy’s arms, that he did not know what to do. He trembled and tried to get away, but the boy said:

9. CHAPTER IX

“Well, now we’re nice and comfortable, let’s talk,” said Slicko, the jumping squirrel, as she found a soft place on a bed of moss. Flop Ear picked himself out a nice place also.

11. CHAPTER XI

“That wood is very hard to gnaw; isn’t it?” asked the mother mouse as she, with her little children mice inside the trap, looked out at Flop Ear. “It was too hard for my teeth....

7. CHAPTER VII

For two or three days Jimmie made Flop Ear do, over and over again, the first two tricks――those of jumping through the barrel hoop, and standing up with a piece of carrot on his...

1. CHAPTER I

Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, a family of rabbits lived in the woods near the top of a mountain. There were six in the family, counting Flop Ear, the funny rabbi...

2. CHAPTER II

Along through the woods ran Flop Ear, the funny rabbit. Every now and then he would look over his shoulder, to see if there was a storm coming up. For sometimes it thundered awa...

10. CHAPTER X

Flop Ear did not know what was happening to him. All he knew was that he was going up, much higher than the time he had hopped into the wood basket, and had been lifted up by th...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Flop Ear sat up on his hind legs, once he was outside the fence, and looked about him. One of his big ears stuck up straight, and the other sort of leaned over. Flop Ear put his...

4. CHAPTER IV

The little lost rabbit sat up on his hind legs and looked all around him. He was in the middle of a big wood, and while he liked the trees, the moss and the fallen leaves, which...