The Tale of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

Another Beatrix Potter story; also, another of the books that has no actual copyright date in it.

It's a somewhat strange and slightly gruesome story about a bad rabbit that steals a good rabbit's carrot and then proceeds to beat up on the good rabbit.

A short time later a farmer with a gun takes a shot at the bad rabbit (thinking it's a bird), and the bad rabbit survives, but loses all his whiskers and his tail.

Definitely one of those “don't behave badly” types of moralistic stories.

The drawings in this particular version seem somewhat faded.

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