Reddy stopped and stood up on his hind legs so as to see if the top of that stump was hollow.
[21]And the first time they had poked their heads out, Peter Rabbit had given them a terrible scare by thumping the ground with his hind feet.
" Peter suddenly thumped the[13] ground very hard with his hind feet.
Ain't you got your dress on hind sid' foremost?
Toad held up one of his stout hind feet, and on it was a kind of spur.
He was opening and shutting his big mouth, and drawing his hind legs under him, and rubbing them against his body.
"Well, well," exclaimed Jimmy Skunk, "whatever has got into those long hind legs of yours to make them work so fast?
Jumper drew a long breath and settled his long hind feet for a great jump, hoping to so take Whitey the Owl by surprise that he might be able to get away.
" This was Peter Rabbit hitting the ground with one of his hind feet.
He scratched the tip of his nose with his left hind foot.
Just when he was about to give up and meet his fate like a man, old Bunny, who had been much excited by the race, came scampering across the path with such a droll skip into the air and shake of the hind legs that Frank had to dodge to avoid stepping on him, and to laugh in spite of himself.
But Scamp was ready for her, and began to comb her hair with both paws as he stood on his hind legs to work so busily that Molly laughed and pulled him down, saying, as she cuddled the sly kit.
" First he was led across the stage on his hind legs, looking very fierce and indignant, with a long tape trailing behind him; and, being set free at the proper moment, he gave one bound over the four-and-twenty blackbirds who happened to be in the way, and dashed off as if an enraged cook had actually been after him, straight downstairs to the coal-bin, where he sat glaring in the dark, till the fun was over.
On his way to the store through the woods, the bunny uncle came to a big beech tree, which had nice, shiny white bark on it, and, to his surprise the rabbit gentleman saw a big black bear, standing up on his hind legs and scratching at the tree bark as hard as he could.
"Here I am, down in the ground near your left hind leg," was the answer.
Uncle Wiggily started to run away, but he did not like to go and leave Johnnie's marbles on the ground, so he stayed to pick them up, and by then the bear stood up on his hind legs again, and grabbed the bunny uncle in his sharp claws.
Her hind paws slipped and into the mud puddle she fell with her new dress.
" Then he lighted the string of the firecracker, standing up on his hind legs to reach it, you see, and, as it was a long string, the fox knew it would burn some time before it would explode the firecracker.
There she was, with only part of her body and her hind legs sticking out, and she was eating the molasses as fast as she could.
" So he got up on the rope, standing up on his hind legs, and balancing the pole with his front paws and he steadied himself for a moment and then took a step.
