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Hare loved his home, and really, he had a right to. He had the cosiest little house built under the wild brier bush on the edge of the poppy and cyclamen meadow. Such a convenient place! When Fox came sniffing along, the tall meadow grasses hid Hare’s escape. When Buzzard circled above him, the convenient forest sheltered him. When Owl hunted him in the forest, a few great leaps took him under the bramble bush where he lay like a length of shadow. Above all, when he felt like an outing with his friends, he could reach the clearing in half a dozen great hops.