STREET DOGS: Dr Rabbit
You might think you’re ready, but when the time comes …
From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-Yi Coyote: Doctor Rabbit said, "I don’t think I should care much if Ki-yi Coyote did come after us. I could run away from him and be in the Big Green Woods in no time!" But Jack Rabbit had run away from Ki-yi Coyote a good many times, and he knew. So he said pretty seriously, "I don’t know about that, Doctor Rabbit. Ki-yi can run something awful." "I know," said Doctor Rabbit, "but the Big Green Woods look so close that I feel sure I could beat him that far. "Why I feel so sure about it that I wish old Ki-yi would come tearing out this way right now! Yes, sir! I wish he would. "Just let him come whenever he wants to. If he came, I’d run away and be in the Big Green Woods so quick he could hardly see me." And then something happened, something that Doctor Rabbit was not ready for at all, because he really was not expecting it. Just then Ki-yi Coyote did come tearing over the great Wide Prairie after them. And he came from the direction of the Big Green Woods...
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