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 "Bravo, Jacko," cried the children, and each threw a penny into his cap for food for himself and his master.

AN APRIL FOOL STORY

One day all the rabbits were close together near a back fence, sitting up on their haunches. The rabbit in the middle was telling the others a story. It was about a rabbit.

"So," said he, going on with the story, "whenever the little rabbit was hungry all he had to say was

'Garden fairy, sweet, Some lettuce I'd eat,'

And straightway a whole head of lettuce would grow up before him."

"Oh, my," cried all the rabbits together, "how I wish that would happen to me!" And story-teller and all turned a somersault at the very thought of it. After this they sat up again to hear the rest of the story.

But their pink eyes almost burst out of their heads and their ears stood straight up toward the sky. There in front of each was a large leaf of lettuce.

"Why, the story's coming true," cried the story