"Waiting for More Hares by the Stump" A farmer in the State of Song was working in his field when a hare dashed by, accidentally hit a tree stump, broke its neck, and died.
By and by something white moving about near an old stump caught[185] his attention.
He found a thoroughly rotted old stump and pulled it apart.
Perched on top of a tall stump just back of Boxer, it didn't take Hooty long to understand that this little Bear was lost.
Then one day as they were playing about near the Laughing Brook, while Mother Bear was busy a little way off tearing open an old stump after ants, Woof-Woof discovered a footprint.
There was the spot where the Indian pipes grew; the particular bit of marshy ground where the fringed gentians used to be largest and bluest; the rock maple where she found the oriole's nest; the hedge where the field mice lived; the moss-covered stump where the white toadstools were wont to spring up as if by magic; the hole at the root of the old pine where an ancient and honorable toad made his home; these were the landmarks of her childhood, and she looked at them as across an immeasurable d
He was beginning to get pretty tired by the time he reached the Green Forest and came in sight of the rotted old chestnut stump where he was to meet Buster Bear.
"Buster Bear has just sent word by me to ask if you will honor him by dining with him to-morrow at the rotted chestnut stump near the edge of the Green Forest," said Jimmy in his politest manner.
You see, I have always lived in a hole in the ground or a hollow stump, or a hole in a tree, and I have not yet become used to a home that moves about and rocks as this one does when the wind blows.
She merely poked her nose in at a splendid hole beneath the roots of an old stump.
It was in an old hollow stump close to the ground.
Now the home which he had left had been a snug little room beneath the roots of a certain old stump.
Sure enough, there was Whitey the Snowy Owl back to him on a stump, watching the hole down which he had disappeared a few minutes before.
And as Jumper did this, he looked over to that stump where Whitey had been sitting so long.
There he was in plain sight of Whitey the Snowy Owl, sitting motionless on a stump only a short distance away, yet Whitey hadn't seen him.
Jumper the Hare crouched at the foot of a tree in the Green Forest, and a little way from him on a stump sat Whitey the Snowy Owl.
A great white bird had just alighted on a stump a short distance away.
I won't have any hiding-place at all, and then I will have to go outside back to my old home in the hollow stump.
Reddy sat down behind a big stump and rubbed his eyes.
His father threw a stump at him when he was small.
