Identifier: mrrabbitathomese00harr2 (find matches)
Title: Mr. Rabbit at home; a sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and his queer country
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company

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obody paid anyattention to it along at first. But after awhileit got so that every time a Dog would meet aMonkey in the road, the Monkey would get up ina tree and laugh at him, and then the Dog wouldstop and scratch up the dirt with all four of hisfeet and growl. Oh, I ve seen them do that way, saidSweetest Susan, laughing. Yes, replied Mr. Rabbit, with a more solemnair than ever. They have never got out of thehabit of that kind of caper from that day to this.Well, the coolness grew into a dispute, and thedispute into a quarrel, and so there it was. TheMonkeys would make faces and squeal at theDogs, and the Dogs would show their teeth andgrowl at the Monkeys. It went from bad toworse, and after awhile, the Dogs would chasethe Monkeys wherever they saw them, and theMonkeys would swing down from the hanginglimbs and give the tails of the Dogs some terribletwists. Before that time the Monkeys had been liv-ing on the ground just like everybody else lived, : >t,r >•*, , , • r e i
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THE MONKEYS WOULD MAKE FACES AND SQUEAL AT THE DOGS -tu.-,..:.-•. ,^T THE NEW YOhK : PUBLIC LIBRARY- ASTOR, LENOXTII.DEN FOUNDATIONS AN OLD-FASHIONED FUSS. 181 but the Dogs had such sharp teeth and suchnimble feet that the Monkeys had to take to thetrees and saplings. At first they could nt getabout in the trees as they do now. Sometimesthey d miss their footing, or lose their grip, anddown they d come right into the red jaws of theDogs. Now this was nt pleasant at all. Even whenthe Monkeys didnt fall, the ants and crawlingbugs would get on them, and the dead limbs ofthe trees would fall and hurt them, and the windwould blow them about, and the heavy rainswould fah1 and wet them. About that time the Monkeys were the mostmiserable creatures in the world. They were somiserable that, finally, the Head Monkey madeup his mind to go and see the Wise Man whoused to settle all disputes as far as he could. Sothe Head Monkey set out on his journey, andtraveled till he came to the Wise Mans ho

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