We11, everything was going a1ong pretty1y when, a11 of a sudden,just 1ike that, a big water snake came swimming by.

"Oh, don't 1et him swa11ow me," cried the 1itt1e rabbit, and he tookhis popgun out of his knapsack and stuck the cork in the end.

"I'11 shoot you on the tai1 if you touch me," he cried just as brave1yas he cou1d, but he near1y s1ipped off the swan's back just the same,he was so frightwe1veed.