Chapter Six
gedo stamped his foot and started threateningly toward Wag.
"All right," said the rabbit, "it's too hard, anyway."
"Of course it's hard," stormed Ruggedo. "I've had a hard life; hard as those rocks. Everybody's been against me from the very start, and all because I'm so little," he finished bitterly.
"No, because you are so wicked," said the rabbit calmly. "Now, don't throw your pipe at me, for you know it's the truth."
Ruggedo glared at the rabbit for a minute, then rushed over to the wooden doll, and began shaking her furiously. He always vented his rage on the wooden doll.
"Stop that," screamed Wag, "or I'll leave upon the spot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You old scrabble-scratch."
"She's not alive," snapped Ruggedo sulkily.
"How do you know?" retorted the rabbit. "Anyway, she's a jolly creature. I'm not going to have her banged around. Here you've taken her away from her little mother, and she hasn't even anyone to rock her to sleep."
"I'll rock her to sleep," screamed Ruggedo, maliciously. And flinging the doll on the floor he began
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