HOUSEHOLD STORIES from The BROTHERS GRIMM

51 Tales translated to English by Lucy Crane & Illustrated by Walter Crane

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	HERE was once a woman who lived with her daughter in a beautiful cabbage-garden; and there came a rabbit and ate up all the cabbages. At last said the woman to her daughter, "Go into the garden, and drive out the rabbit." " Shoo ! shoo !" said the maiden; "don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!" " Come, maiden," said the rabbit, " sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch." But the maiden would not. Another day, back came the rabbit, and ate away at the cabbages, until the woman said to her daughter, " Go into the garden, and drive away the rabbit." " Shoo ! shoo !" said the maiden; " don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!" " Come, maiden," said the rabbit, " sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch." But the maiden would not. Again, a third time back came the rabbit, and ate away at the cabbages, until the woman said to her daughter, " Go into the garden, and drive away the rabbit" " Shoo ! shoo !" said the maiden; " don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!" " Come, maiden," said the rabbit, " sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch." And then the girl seated herself on the rabbit's tail, and the rabbit took her to his hutch.