3. Some mice live in fields and woods. The tiny harvest-mouse makes its
nest on a wheat-stalk. It often does great harm to the wheat.
4. But for puss there would soon be so many mice that we should not know
what to do.
_Write and learn:_
Mice have--
Long tails.
Sharp teeth.
Large ears.
Bright eyes.
Mice like--
Bread.
Meat.
Cheese.
Milk.
Mice are--
Very small.
Very timid.
Very quick.
Very quiet.
THE RABBIT. [_Page 41._
1. The rabbit is about the size of the cat, and is covered with short
fur. It burrows a hole in the ground and makes a nest there for its
young.
2. Rabbits have long ears and large eyes. They can hear a very slight
sound, and can see _behind_ as well as before them.
3. Their hind-legs are longer than their fore-legs; so they do not run,
but leap.
4. Rabbits like to live where there is plenty of furze, which they eat
for food. They do much mischief in corn-fields by eating the young corn.
They also eat the bark off young trees, and so spoil them.
_Write and learn:_
Rabbits have--
Long ears.
Large eyes.
Long hind-legs.
Warm fur.
Rabbits eat--
Grass.
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