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Excerpt from The Nursery, 1870, Vol. 8: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers This is our Lucy, this little girl who is feeding the rab bit. She was our baby only a few years ago. She is not five years old now; but she is big enough to take good care of her baby brother. That little boy in the wagon is Lucy's baby-brother. His name is Ernest. Lucy has been taking him to ride. She takes him out in his wagon every fine day. The wagon is not a very light one. Lucy has to tug pretty hard sometimes; but she can drag it nicely, for she is very strong. I will tell you where she has been with Ernest this mom ing. First she took him down through the garden and let him look at the flowers; then she took him up to the barn and showed him the bossy - calf; then down by the hen-house to see the chickens; then round through the lane under the shady trees, and so back to the old pump in the yard. Here she stopped, and began to call, Bunny, Bunny, Bunny! And in a minute two pretty little rabbits came to her. Lucy sat down on the ground, and fed them with clover, while the baby sat up in his wagon and looked on, as you see in the picture. Then Lucy took the white rabbit by the ears, and lifted it into the wagon. There it found a nice soft place on the pillow, and sat very quietly while Ernest stroked it and played with it. He was so pleased with the rabbit, that he was hardly willing to give it up when Lucy thought the time had come to take him into the house. But Lucy said, Come, Ernest, we have not looked at the doves yet. They are waiting to see us. So the little boy let the rabbit go; and Lucy turned the wagon round, and pointed up to the doves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.