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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tale of Mr. Tod + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19805] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MR. TOD *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Michael Ciesielski and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 455px;"> +<a href="images/image001.jpg"><img src="images/image001_thumb.jpg" width="455" height="595" alt="" title="Cover" /> +</a></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='figcenter'> +<a href='images/image002.jpg'><img src='images/image002_thumb.jpg' alt="" /></a> +</div> + +<h1 style="vertical-align: top;">THE TALE OF<br /> +M<small>R</small>. TOD</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>BEATRIX POTTER</h2> + +<p class='ctr'><i>Author of</i><br /><i>"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.</i></p> + +<div class='figcenter'><img src='images/image003.jpg' alt="" /></div> + +<p class='ctr'>FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC. <br /> NEW YORK<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<p class='ctr'> +COPYRIGHT, 1912<br /> +BY<br /> +FREDERICK WARNE & Co.<br /> +<br /> +<i>Copyright renewed 1940</i><br /> +(<i>All rights reserved</i>)<br /> +<br /> +PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE USA<br /> +ROSE PRINTING CO INC<br /> +<br /> +ISBN O 7232 0605 8<br /> +<br /> +12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (C)<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> + +<div style='height: 8em;'> +<br /> +</div> + +<p class='ctr'> +FOR<br /> +FRANCIS WILLIAM OF ULVA<br /> +<br /> +——SOMEDAY!<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 541px;"> +<img src="images/image004.jpg" width="541" height="232" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>THE TALE OF MR. TOD</h2> + + +<p>I have made many books about well-behaved people. Now, for a change, I +am going to make a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy +Brock and Mr. Tod.</p> + +<p>Nobody could call Mr. Tod "nice." The rabbits could not bear him; they +could smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had +foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 608px;"> +<img src="images/image005.png" width="608" height="272" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to +the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard +willow near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats.</p> + +<p>In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth +amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks, under Oatmeal Crag.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 318px;"> +<img src="images/image006.png" width="318" height="255" alt="" title="" /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></div> + +<p>He had half a dozen houses, but he was seldom at home.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + +<p>The houses were not always empty when Mr. Tod moved <i>out</i>; because +sometimes Tommy Brock moved <i>in</i>; (without asking leave).</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock was a short bristly fat waddling person with a grin; he +grinned all over his face. He was not nice in his habits. He ate wasp +nests and frogs and worms; and he waddled about by moonlight, digging +things up.</p> + + + + +<p>His clothes were very dirty; and as he slept in the day-time, he always +went to bed in his boots. And the bed which he went to bed in, was +generally Mr. Tod's.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/image007.png" width="297" height="247" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Now Tommy Brock did occasionally eat rabbit-pie; but it was only very +little young ones occasionally, when other food was really scarce. He +was friendly with old Mr. Bouncer; they agreed in disliking<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> the wicked +otters and Mr. Tod; they often talked over that painful subject.</p> + +<p>Old Mr. Bouncer was stricken in years. He sat in the spring sunshine +outside the burrow, in a muffler; smoking a pipe of rabbit tobacco.</p> + +<p>He lived with his son Benjamin Bunny and his daughter-in-law Flopsy, who +had a young family. Old Mr. Bouncer was in charge of the family that +afternoon, because Benjamin and Flopsy had gone out.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 537px;"> +<img src="images/image008.png" width="537" height="234" alt="" title="" /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 559px;"> +<img src="images/image009.png" width="559" height="239" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The little rabbit-babies were just old enough to open their blue eyes +and kick. They lay in a fluffy bed of rabbit wool and hay, in a shallow +burrow, separate from the main rabbit hole. To tell the truth—old Mr. +Bouncer had forgotten them.</p> + + +<p>He sat in the sun, and conversed cordially with Tommy Brock, who was +passing through the wood with a sack and a little spud which he used for +digging, and some mole traps. He complained bitterly about the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +scarcity of pheasants' eggs, and accused Mr. Tod of poaching them. And +the otters had cleared off all the frogs while he was asleep in +winter—"I have not had a good square meal for a fortnight, I am living +on pig-nuts. I shall have to turn vegetarian and eat my own tail!" said +Tommy Brock.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 827px;"> +<a href="images/image010.jpg"><img src="images/image010_thumb.jpg" width="551" height="461" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>It was not much of a joke, but it tickled old Mr. Bouncer; because Tommy +Brock was so fat and stumpy and grinning.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 316px;"> +<img src="images/image011.png" width="316" height="268" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So old Mr. Bouncer laughed; and pressed Tommy Brock to come inside, to +taste a slice of seed-cake and "a glass of my daughter Flopsy's cowslip +wine." Tommy Brock squeezed himself into the rabbit hole with alacrity.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p>Then old Mr. Bouncer smoked another pipe, and gave Tommy Brock a cabbage +leaf cigar which was so very strong that it made Tommy Brock grin more +than ever; and the smoke filled the burrow. Old Mr. Bouncer coughed and +laughed; and Tommy Brock puffed and grinned.</p> + +<p>And Mr. Bouncer laughed and coughed, and shut his eyes because of the +cabbage smoke . . .<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + +<p>When Flopsy and Benjamin came back—old Mr. Bouncer woke up. Tommy Brock +and all the young rabbit-babies had disappeared!</p> + +<p>Mr. Bouncer would not confess that he had admitted anybody into the +rabbit hole. But the smell of badger was undeniable; and there were +round heavy footmarks in the sand. He was in disgrace; Flopsy wrung her +ears, and slapped him.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 346px;"> +<img src="images/image012.png" width="346" height="256" alt="" title="" /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></div> + +<p>Benjamin Bunny set off at once after Tommy Brock.</p> + +<p>There was not much difficulty in tracking him; he had left his foot-mark +and gone slowly up the winding footpath through the wood. Here he had +rooted up the moss and wood sorrel. There he had dug quite a deep hole +for dog darnel; and had set a mole trap. A little stream crossed the +way. Benjamin skipped lightly over dry-foot; the badger's heavy steps +showed plainly in the mud.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;"> +<a href="images/image013.jpg"><img src="images/image013_thumb.jpg" width="434" height="536" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>The path led to a part of the thicket where the trees had been cleared; +there were leafy oak stumps, and a sea of blue hyacinths—but the smell +that made Benjamin stop, was <i>not</i> the smell of flowers!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/image014.png" width="369" height="312" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod's stick house was before him and, for once, Mr. Tod was at home. +There was not only a foxey flavour in proof of it—there was smoke +coming out of the broken pail that served as a chimney.</p> + +<p>Benjamin Bunny sat up, staring; his whiskers twitched. Inside the stick +house somebody dropped a plate, and said something. Benjamin stamped his +foot, and bolted.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<p>He never stopped till he came to the other side of the wood. Apparently +Tommy Brock had turned the same way. Upon the top of the wall, there +were again the marks of badger; and some ravellings of a sack had caught +on a briar.</p> + +<p>Benjamin climbed over the wall, into a meadow. He found another mole +trap newly set; he was still upon the track of Tommy Brock. It was +getting late in the afternoon. Other rabbits were coming out to enjoy +the evening air. One of them in a blue coat by himself, was busily +hunting for dandelions.—"Cousin Peter! Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit!" +shouted Benjamin Bunny.</p> + +<p>The blue coated rabbit sat up with pricked ears<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/image015.png" width="368" height="314" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>"Whatever is the matter, Cousin Benjamin? Is it a cat? or John Stoat +Ferret?"</p> + +<p>"No, no, no! He's bagged my family—Tommy Brock—in a sack—have you +seen him?"</p> + +<p>"Tommy Brock? how many, Cousin Benjamin?"</p> + +<p>"Seven, Cousin Peter, and all of them twins! Did he come this way? +Please tell me quick!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 341px;"> +<img src="images/image016.png" width="341" height="289" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>"Yes, yes; not ten minutes since ... he said they were <i>caterpillars</i>; I +did think they were kicking rather hard, for caterpillars."</p> + +<p>"Which way? which way has he gone, Cousin Peter?"</p> + +<p>"He had a sack with something 'live in it; I watched him set a mole +trap. Let me use my mind, Cousin Benjamin; tell me from the beginning." +Benjamin did so.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 437px;"> +<a href="images/image017.jpg"><img src="images/image017_thumb.jpg" width="437" height="530" alt="" title="" /></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></div> + +<p>"My Uncle Bouncer has displayed a lamentable want of discretion for his +years;" said Peter reflectively, "but there are two hopeful +circumstances. Your family is alive and kicking; and Tommy Brock has had +refreshment. He will probably go to sleep, and keep them for breakfast." +"Which way?" "Cousin Benjamin, compose yourself. I know very well which +way. Because Mr. Tod was at home in the stick-house he has gone to Mr. +Tod's other house, at the top of Bull Banks. I partly know, because he +offered to leave any message at Sister Cottontail's; he said he would be +passing." (Cottontail had married a black rabbit, and gone to live on +the hill).<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 412px;"> +<img src="images/image018a.png" width="412" height="303" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Peter hid his dandelions, and accompanied the afflicted parent, who was +all of a twitter. They crossed several fields and began to climb the +hill; the tracks of Tommy Brock were plainly to be seen. He seemed to +have put down the sack every dozen yards, to rest.</p> + +<p>"He must be very puffed; we are close behind him, by the scent. What a +nasty person!" said Peter.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/image018.png" width="371" height="276" alt="" title="" /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></div> + +<p>The sunshine was still warm and slanting on the hill pastures. Half way +up, Cottontail was sitting in her doorway, with four or five half-grown +little rabbits playing about her; one black and the others brown.</p> + +<p>Cottontail had seen Tommy Brock passing in the distance. Asked whether +her husband was at home she replied that Tommy Brock had rested twice +while she watched him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + +<p>He had nodded, and pointed to the sack, and seemed doubled up with +laughing.—"Come away, Peter; he will be cooking them; come quicker!" +said Benjamin Bunny.</p> + +<p>They climbed up and up;—"He was at home; I saw his black ears peeping +out of the hole." "They live too near the rocks to quarrel with their +neighbours. Come on, Cousin Benjamin!"</p> + +<p>When they came near the wood at the top of Bull Banks, they went +cautiously. The trees grew amongst heaped up rocks; and there, beneath a +crag—Mr. Tod had made one of his homes. It was at the top of a steep +bank; the rocks and bushes overhung it. The rabbits crept up carefully, +listening and peeping.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 430px;"> +<a href="images/image020.jpg"><img src="images/image020_thumb.jpg" width="430" height="526" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 387px;"> +<img src="images/image021.png" width="387" height="284" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>This house was something between a cave, a prison, and a tumbledown +pig-stye. There was a strong door, which was shut and locked.</p> + +<p>The setting sun made the window panes glow like red flame; but the +kitchen fire was not alight. It was neatly laid with dry sticks, as the +rabbits could see, when they peeped through the window.</p> + +<p>Benjamin sighed with relief.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>But there were preparations upon the kitchen table which made him +shudder. There was an immense empty pie-dish of blue willow pattern, and +a large carving knife and fork, and a chopper.</p> + +<p>At the other end of the table was a partly unfolded tablecloth, a plate, +a tumbler, a knife and fork, salt-cellar, mustard and a chair—in short, +preparations for one person's supper.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 385px;"> +<img src="images/image023.png" width="385" height="321" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>No person was to be seen, and no young rabbits. The kitchen was empty +and silent; the clock had run down. Peter and Benjamin flattened their +noses against the window, and stared into the dusk.</p> + +<p>Then they scrambled round the rocks to the other side of the house. It +was damp and smelly, and overgrown with thorns and briars.</p> + +<p>The rabbits shivered in their shoes.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Oh my poor rabbit babies! What a dreadful place; I shall never see them +again!" sighed Benjamin.</p> + +<p>They crept up to the bedroom window. It was closed and bolted like the +kitchen. But there were signs that this window had been recently open; +the cobwebs were disturbed, and there were fresh dirty footmarks upon +the window-sill.</p> + +<p>The room inside was so dark, that at first they could make out nothing; +but they could hear a noise—a slow deep regular snoring grunt. And as +their eyes became accustomed to the darkness, they perceived that +somebody was asleep on Mr. Tod's bed, curled up under the blanket.—"He +has gone to bed in his boots," whispered Peter.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;"> +<a href="images/image024.jpg"><img src="images/image024_thumb.jpg" width="434" height="530" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + +<p>Benjamin, who was all of a twitter, pulled Peter off the window-sill.</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock's snores continued, grunty and regular from Mr. Tod's bed. +Nothing could be seen of the young family.</p> + +<p>The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood. There were many +unpleasant things lying about, that had much better have been buried; +rabbit bones and skulls, and chickens' legs and other horrors. It was a +shocking place, and very dark.</p> + +<p>They went back to the front of the house, and tried in every way to move +the bolt of the kitchen window. They tried to push up a rusty nail +between the window sashes; but it was of no use, especially without a +light.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 599px;"> +<img src="images/image025.png" width="599" height="260" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>They sat side by side outside the window, whispering and listening.</p> + +<p>In half an hour the moon rose over the wood. It shone full and clear and +cold, upon the house amongst the rocks, and in at the kitchen window. +But alas, no little rabbit babies were to be seen!</p> + +<p>The moonbeams twinkled on the carving knife and the pie dish, and made a +path of brightness across the dirty floor.</p> + +<p>The light showed a little door in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> a wall beside the kitchen +fireplace—a little iron door belonging to a brick oven, of that +old-fashioned sort that used to be heated with faggots of wood.</p> + +<p>And presently at the same moment Peter and Benjamin noticed that +whenever they shook the window—the little door opposite shook in +answer. The young family were alive; shut up in the oven!</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 310px;"> +<img src="images/image026.png" width="310" height="261" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>Benjamin was so excited that it was a mercy he did not awake Tommy +Brock, whose snores continued solemnly in Mr. Tod's bed.</p> + +<p>But there really was not very much comfort in the discovery. They could +not open the window; and although the young family was alive—the little +rabbits were quite incapable of letting themselves out; they were not +old enough to crawl.</p> + +<p>After much whispering, Peter and Benjamin decided to dig a tunnel. They +began to burrow a yard or two lower down the bank. They hoped that they +might be able to work between the large stones under the house; the +kitchen floor was so dirty that it was impossible to say whether it was +made of earth or flags.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 546px;"> +<a href="images/image027.jpg"><img src="images/image027_thumb.jpg" width="546" height="455" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>They dug and dug for hours. They could not tunnel straight on account of +stones; but by the end of the night they were under the kitchen floor. +Benjamin was on his back, scratching upwards. Peter's claws were worn +down; he was outside the tunnel, shuffling sand away. He called out that +it was morning—sunrise; and that the jays were making a noise down +below in the woods.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 402px;"> +<img src="images/image028.png" width="402" height="300" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Benjamin Bunny came out of the dark tunnel, shaking the sand from his +ears; he cleaned his face with his paws. Every minute the sun shone +warmer on the top of the hill. In the valley there was a sea of white +mist, with golden tops of trees showing through.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p> + +<p>Again from the fields down below in the mist there came the angry cry of +a jay—followed by the sharp yelping bark of a fox!</p> + +<p>Then those two rabbits lost their heads completely. They did the most +foolish thing that they could have done. They rushed into their short +new tunnel, and hid themselves at the top end of it, under Mr. Tod's +kitchen floor.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/image029.png" width="598" height="263" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod was coming up Bull Banks, and he was in the very worst of +tempers. First he had been upset by breaking the plate. It was his own +fault; but it was a china plate, the last of the dinner service that had +belonged to his grandmother, old Vixen Tod. Then the midges had been +very bad. And he had failed to catch a hen pheasant on her nest; and it +had contained only five eggs, two of them addled. Mr. Tod had had an +unsatisfactory night.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 388px;"> +<img src="images/image030.png" width="388" height="328" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>As usual, when out of humour, he determined to move house. First he +tried the pollard willow, but it was damp; and the otters had left a +dead fish near it. Mr. Tod likes nobody's leavings but his own.</p> + +<p>He made his way up the hill; his temper was not improved by noticing +unmistakable marks of badger. No one else grubs up the moss so wantonly +as Tommy Brock.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 430px;"> +<a href="images/image031.jpg"><img src="images/image031_thumb.jpg" width="430" height="523" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mr. Tod slapped his stick upon the earth and fumed; he guessed where +Tommy Brock had gone to. He was further annoyed by the jay bird which +followed him persistently. It flew from tree to tree and scolded, +warning every rabbit within hearing that either a cat or a fox was +coming up the plantation. Once when it flew screaming over his head—Mr. +Tod snapped at it, and barked.</p> + +<p>He approached his house very carefully, with a large rusty key. He +sniffed and his whiskers bristled. The house was locked up, but Mr. Tod +had his doubts whether it was empty. He turned the rusty key in the +lock; the rabbits below could hear it. Mr. Tod opened the door +cautiously and went in.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 446px;"> +<img src="images/image032.png" width="446" height="330" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The sight that met Mr. Tod's eyes in Mr. Tod's kitchen made Mr. Tod +furious. There was Mr. Tod's chair, and Mr. Tod's pie dish, and his +knife and fork and mustard and salt cellar and his table-cloth that he +had left folded up in the dresser—all set out for supper (or +breakfast)—without doubt for that odious Tommy Brock.</p> + +<p>There was a smell of fresh earth and dirty badger, which fortunately<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +overpowered all smell of rabbit.</p> + +<p>But what absorbed Mr. Tod's attention was a noise—a deep slow regular +snoring grunting noise, coming from his own bed.</p> + +<p>He peeped through the hinges of the half-open bedroom door. Then he +turned and came out of the house in a hurry. His whiskers bristled and +his coat-collar stood on end with rage.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 418px;"> +<img src="images/image033.png" width="418" height="315" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> + +<p>For the next twenty minutes Mr. Tod kept creeping cautiously into the +house, and retreating hurriedly out again. By degrees he ventured +further in—right into the bedroom. When he was outside the house, he +scratched up the earth with fury. But when he was inside—he did not +like the look of Tommy Brock's teeth.</p> + +<p>He was lying on his back with his mouth open, grinning from ear to ear. +He snored peacefully and regularly; but one eye was not perfectly shut.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod came in and out of the bedroom. Twice he brought in his +walking-stick, and once he brought in the coal-scuttle. But he thought +better of it, and took them away.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 544px;"> +<a href="images/image034.jpg"><img src="images/image034_thumb.jpg" width="544" height="457" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<p>When he came back after removing the coal-scuttle, Tommy Brock was lying +a little more sideways; but he seemed even sounder asleep. He was an +incurably indolent person; he was not in the least afraid of Mr. Tod; he +was simply too lazy and comfortable to move.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod came back yet again into the bedroom with a clothes line. He +stood a minute watching Tommy Brock and listening attentively to the +snores. They were very loud indeed, but seemed quite natural.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod turned his back towards the bed, and undid the window. It +creaked; he turned round with a jump. Tommy Brock, who had opened one +eye—shut it hastily. The snores continued.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 596px;"> +<img src="images/image035.png" width="596" height="253" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod's proceedings were peculiar, and rather uneasy, (because the bed +was between the window and the door of the bedroom). He opened the +window a little way, and pushed out the greater part of the clothes line +on to the window sill. The rest of the line, with a hook at the end, +remained in his hand.</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock snored conscientiously. Mr. Tod stood and looked at him for +a minute; then he left the room again.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p> + +<p>Tommy Brock opened both eyes, and looked at the rope and grinned. There +was a noise outside the window. Tommy Brock shut his eyes in a hurry.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod had gone out at the front door, and round to the back of the +house. On the way, he stumbled over the rabbit burrow. If he had had any +idea who was inside it, he would have pulled them out quickly.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 413px;"> +<img src="images/image036.png" width="413" height="310" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + +<p>His foot went through the tunnel nearly upon the top of Peter Rabbit and +Benjamin, but fortunately he thought that it was some more of Tommy +Brock's work.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 362px;"> +<img src="images/image037.png" width="362" height="305" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>He took up the coil of line from the sill, listened for a moment, and +then tied the rope to a tree.</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock watched him with one eye, through the window. He was +puzzled.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 522px;"> +<a href="images/image038.jpg"><img src="images/image038_thumb.jpg" width="522" height="645" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod fetched a large heavy pailful of water from the spring, and +staggered with it through the kitchen into his bedroom.</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock snored industriously, with rather a snort.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod put down the pail beside the bed, took up the end of rope with +the hook—hesitated, and looked at Tommy Brock. The snores were almost +apoplectic; but the grin was not quite so big.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod gingerly mounted a chair by the head of the bedstead. His legs +were dangerously near to Tommy Brock's teeth.</p> + +<p>He reached up and put the end of rope, with the hook, over the head of +the tester bed, where the curtains ought to hang.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> + +<p>(Mr. Tod's curtains were folded up, and put away, owing to the house +being unoccupied. So was the counterpane. Tommy Brock was covered with a +blanket only.) Mr. Tod standing on the unsteady chair looked down upon +him attentively; he really was a first prize sound sleeper!</p> + +<p>It seemed as though nothing would waken him—not even the flapping rope +across the bed.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tod descended safely from the chair, and endeavoured to get up again +with the pail of water. He intended to hang it from the hook, dangling +over the head of Tommy Brock, in order to make a sort of shower-bath, +worked by a string, through the window.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/image039.png" width="371" height="314" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>But naturally being a thin-legged person (though vindictive and sandy +whiskered)—he was quite unable to lift the heavy weight to the level of +the hook and rope. He very nearly overbalanced himself.</p> + +<p>The snores became more and more apoplectic. One of Tommy Brock's hind +legs twitched under the blanket, but still he slept on peacefully.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mr. Tod and the pail descended from the chair without accident. After +considerable thought, he emptied the water into a wash-basin and jug. +The empty pail was not too heavy for him; he slung it up wobbling over +the head of Tommy Brock.</p> + +<p>Surely there never was such a sleeper! Mr. Tod got up and down, down and +up on the chair.</p> + +<p>As he could not lift the whole pailful of water at once, he fetched a +milk jug, and ladled quarts of water into the pail by degrees. The pail +got fuller and fuller, and swung like a pendulum. Occasionally a drop +splashed over; but still Tommy Brock snored regularly and never +moved,—except one eye.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 541px;"> +<a href="images/image040.jpg"><img src="images/image040_thumb.jpg" width="541" height="644" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/image041.png" width="368" height="308" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>At last Mr. Tod's preparations were complete. The pail was full of +water; the rope was tightly strained over the top of the bed, and across +the window sill to the tree outside.</p> + +<p>"It will make a great mess in my bedroom; but I could never sleep in +that bed again without a spring cleaning of some sort," said Mr. Tod.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 411px;"> +<img src="images/image042.png" width="411" height="301" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod took a last look at the badger and softly left the room. He went +out of the house, shutting the front door. The rabbits heard his +footsteps over the tunnel.</p> + +<p>He ran round behind the house, intending to undo the rope in order to +let fall the pailful of water upon Tommy Brock—</p> + +<p>"I will wake him up with an unpleasant surprise," said Mr. Tod.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> + +<p>The moment he had gone, Tommy Brock got up in a hurry; he rolled Mr. +Tod's dressing-gown into a bundle, put it into the bed beneath the pail +of water instead of himself, and left the room also—grinning immensely.</p> + +<p>He went into the kitchen, lighted the fire and boiled the kettle; for +the moment he did not trouble himself to cook the baby rabbits.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 419px;"> +<img src="images/image043.png" width="419" height="311" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 411px;"> +<img src="images/image044.png" width="411" height="310" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>When Mr. Tod got to the tree, he found that the weight and strain had +dragged the knot so tight that it was past untying. He was obliged to +gnaw it with his teeth. He chewed and gnawed for more than twenty +minutes. At last the rope gave way with such a sudden jerk that it +nearly pulled his teeth out, and quite knocked him over backwards.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 527px;"> +<a href="images/image045.jpg"><img src="images/image045_thumb.jpg" width="527" height="647" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p> + + + +<p>Inside the house there was a great crash and splash, and the noise of a +pail rolling over and over.</p> + +<p>But no screams. Mr. Tod was mystified; he sat quite still, and listened +attentively. Then he peeped in at the window. The water was dripping +from the bed, the pail had rolled into a corner.</p> + +<p>In the middle of the bed under the blanket, was a wet flattened +<i>something</i>—much dinged in, in the middle where the pail had caught it +(as it were across the tummy). Its head was covered by the wet blanket +and it was <i>not snoring any longer</i>.</p> + +<p>There was nothing stirring, and no sound except the drip, drop, drop +drip of water trickling from the mattress.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 384px;"> +<img src="images/image046.png" width="384" height="320" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Tod watched it for half an hour; his eyes glistened.</p> + +<p>Then he cut a caper, and became so bold that he even tapped at the +window; but the bundle never moved.</p> + +<p>Yes—there was no doubt about it—it had turned out even better than he +had planned; the pail had hit poor old Tommy Brock, and killed him +dead!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I will bury that nasty person in the hole which he has dug. I will +bring my bedding out, and dry it in the sun," said Mr. Tod.</p> + +<p>"I will wash the tablecloth and spread it on the grass in the sun to +bleach. And the blanket must be hung up in the wind; and the bed must be +thoroughly disinfected, and aired with a warming-pan; and warmed with a +hot-water bottle."</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 407px;"> +<img src="images/image047.png" width="407" height="311" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I will get soft soap, and monkey soap, and all sorts of soap; and soda +and scrubbing brushes; and persian powder; and carbolic to remove the +smell. I must have a disinfecting. Perhaps I may have to burn sulphur."</p> + +<p>He hurried round the house to get a shovel from the kitchen—"First I +will arrange the hole—then I will drag out that person in the +blanket...."</p> + +<p>He opened the door....</p> + +<p>Tommy Brock was sitting at Mr. Tod's kitchen table, pouring out tea from +Mr. Tod's tea-pot into Mr. Tod's tea-cup. He was quite dry himself and +grinning; and he threw the cup of scalding tea all over Mr. Tod.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 547px;"> +<a href="images/image048.jpg"><img src="images/image048_thumb.jpg" width="547" height="455" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 358px;"> +<img src="images/image049.png" width="358" height="305" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then Mr. Tod rushed upon Tommy Brock, and Tommy Brock grappled with Mr. +Tod amongst the broken crockery, and there was a terrific battle all +over the kitchen. To the rabbits underneath it sounded as if the floor +would give way at each crash of falling furniture.</p> + +<p>They crept out of their tunnel, and hung about amongst the rocks and +bushes, listening anxiously.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 389px;"> +<img src="images/image050.png" width="389" height="313" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Inside the house the racket was fearful. The rabbit babies in the oven +woke up trembling; perhaps it was fortunate they were shut up inside.</p> + +<p>Everything was upset except the kitchen table.</p> + +<p>And everything was broken, except the mantelpiece and the kitchen +fender. The crockery was smashed to atoms.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p> + +<p>The chairs were broken, and the window, and the clock fell with a crash, +and there were handfuls of Mr. Tod's sandy whiskers.</p> + +<p>The vases fell off the mantelpiece, the canisters fell off the shelf; +the kettle fell off the hob. Tommy Brock put his foot in a jar of +raspberry jam.</p> + +<p>And the boiling water out of the kettle fell upon the tail of Mr. Tod.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 359px;"> +<img src="images/image051.png" width="359" height="307" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 424px;"> +<img src="images/image052.png" width="424" height="294" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>When the kettle fell, Tommy Brock, who was still grinning, happened to +be uppermost; and he rolled Mr. Tod over and over like a log, out at the +door.</p> + +<p>Then the snarling and worrying went on outside; and they rolled over the +bank, and down hill, bumping over the rocks. There will never be any +love lost between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 520px;"> +<a href="images/image053.jpg"><img src="images/image053_thumb.jpg" width="520" height="640" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<p>As soon as the coast was clear, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny came out +of the bushes—</p> + +<p>"Now for it! Run in, Cousin Benjamin! Run in and get them! while I watch +at the door."</p> + +<p>But Benjamin was frightened—</p> + +<p>"Oh; oh! they are coming back!"</p> + +<p>"No they are not."</p> + +<p>"Yes they are!"</p> + +<p>"What dreadful bad language! I think they have fallen down the stone +quarry."</p> + +<p>Still Benjamin hesitated, and Peter kept pushing him—</p> + +<p>"Be quick, it's all right. Shut the oven door, Cousin Benjamin, so that +he won't miss them."</p> + +<p>Decidedly there were lively doings in Mr. Tod's kitchen!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/image054.png" width="356" height="304" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>At home in the rabbit hole, things had not been quite comfortable.</p> + +<p>After quarrelling at supper, Flopsy and old Mr. Bouncer had passed a +sleepless night, and quarrelled again at breakfast. Old Mr. Bouncer +could no longer deny that he had invited company into the rabbit hole; +but he refused to reply to the questions and reproaches of Flopsy. The +day passed heavily.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<p>Old Mr. Bouncer, very sulky, was huddled up in a corner, barricaded with +a chair. Flopsy had taken away his pipe and hidden the tobacco. She had +been having a complete turn out and spring-cleaning, to relieve her +feelings. She had just finished. Old Mr. Bouncer, behind his chair, was +wondering anxiously what she would do next.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/image055.png" width="368" height="310" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<p>In Mr. Tod's kitchen, amongst the wreckage, Benjamin Bunny picked his +way to the oven nervously, through a thick cloud of dust. He opened the +oven door, felt inside, and found something warm and wriggling. He +lifted it out carefully, and rejoined Peter Rabbit.</p> + +<p>"I've got them! Can we get away? Shall we hide, Cousin Peter?"</p> + +<p>Peter pricked his ears; distant sounds of fighting still echoed in the +wood.</p> + +<p>Five minutes afterwards two breathless rabbits came scuttering away down +Bull Banks, half carrying half dragging a sack between them, bumpetty +bump over the grass. They reached home safely and burst into the rabbit +hole.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 504px;"> +<a href="images/image056.jpg"><img src="images/image056_thumb.jpg" width="504" height="623" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/image057.png" width="369" height="310" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Great was old Mr. Bouncer's relief and Flopsy's joy when Peter and +Benjamin arrived in triumph with the young family. The rabbit-babies +were rather tumbled and very hungry; they were fed and put to bed. They +soon recovered.</p> + +<p>A long new pipe and a fresh supply of rabbit tobacco was presented to +Mr. Bouncer. He was rather upon his dignity; but he accepted.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/image058.png" width="357" height="251" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Old Mr. Bouncer was forgiven, and they all had dinner. Then Peter and +Benjamin told their story—but they had not waited long enough to be +able to tell the end of the battle between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.</p> + +<h2 style="clear: both;">THE END</h2> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tale of Mr. Tod, by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MR. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tale of Mr. Tod + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19805] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MR. TOD *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Michael Ciesielski and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE TALE OF MR. TOD + +BY + +BEATRIX POTTER + +_Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc._ + +[Illustration] + +FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC. NEW YORK + +COPYRIGHT, 1912 +BY +FREDERICK WARNE & Co. + +_Copyright renewed 1940_ +(_All rights reserved_) + +PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE USA +ROSE PRINTING CO INC + +ISBN O 7232 0605 8 + +12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (C) + +FOR +FRANCIS WILLIAM OF ULVA +----SOMEDAY! + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE TALE OF MR. TOD + + +I have made many books about well-behaved people. Now, for a change, I +am going to make a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy +Brock and Mr. Tod. + +Nobody could call Mr. Tod "nice." The rabbits could not bear him; they +could smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had +foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next. + +[Illustration] + +One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to +the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard +willow near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats. + +In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth +amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks, under Oatmeal Crag. + +He had half a dozen houses, but he was seldom at home. + +The houses were not always empty when Mr. Tod moved _out_; because +sometimes Tommy Brock moved _in_; (without asking leave). + +Tommy Brock was a short bristly fat waddling person with a grin; he +grinned all over his face. He was not nice in his habits. He ate wasp +nests and frogs and worms; and he waddled about by moonlight, digging +things up. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +His clothes were very dirty; and as he slept in the day-time, he always +went to bed in his boots. And the bed which he went to bed in, was +generally Mr. Tod's. + +Now Tommy Brock did occasionally eat rabbit-pie; but it was only very +little young ones occasionally, when other food was really scarce. He +was friendly with old Mr. Bouncer; they agreed in disliking the wicked +otters and Mr. Tod; they often talked over that painful subject. + +Old Mr. Bouncer was stricken in years. He sat in the spring sunshine +outside the burrow, in a muffler; smoking a pipe of rabbit tobacco. + +He lived with his son Benjamin Bunny and his daughter-in-law Flopsy, who +had a young family. Old Mr. Bouncer was in charge of the family that +afternoon, because Benjamin and Flopsy had gone out. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The little rabbit-babies were just old enough to open their blue eyes +and kick. They lay in a fluffy bed of rabbit wool and hay, in a shallow +burrow, separate from the main rabbit hole. To tell the truth--old Mr. +Bouncer had forgotten them. + +He sat in the sun, and conversed cordially with Tommy Brock, who was +passing through the wood with a sack and a little spud which he used for +digging, and some mole traps. He complained bitterly about the +scarcity of pheasants' eggs, and accused Mr. Tod of poaching them. And +the otters had cleared off all the frogs while he was asleep in +winter--"I have not had a good square meal for a fortnight, I am living +on pig-nuts. I shall have to turn vegetarian and eat my own tail!" said +Tommy Brock. + +[Illustration] + +It was not much of a joke, but it tickled old Mr. Bouncer; because Tommy +Brock was so fat and stumpy and grinning. + +So old Mr. Bouncer laughed; and pressed Tommy Brock to come inside, to +taste a slice of seed-cake and "a glass of my daughter Flopsy's cowslip +wine." Tommy Brock squeezed himself into the rabbit hole with alacrity. + +[Illustration] + +Then old Mr. Bouncer smoked another pipe, and gave Tommy Brock a cabbage +leaf cigar which was so very strong that it made Tommy Brock grin more +than ever; and the smoke filled the burrow. Old Mr. Bouncer coughed and +laughed; and Tommy Brock puffed and grinned. + +And Mr. Bouncer laughed and coughed, and shut his eyes because of the +cabbage smoke.... + +When Flopsy and Benjamin came back--old Mr. Bouncer woke up. Tommy Brock +and all the young rabbit-babies had disappeared! + +Mr. Bouncer would not confess that he had admitted anybody into the +rabbit hole. But the smell of badger was undeniable; and there were +round heavy footmarks in the sand. He was in disgrace; Flopsy wrung her +ears, and slapped him. + +[Illustration] + +Benjamin Bunny set off at once after Tommy Brock. + +There was not much difficulty in tracking him; he had left his foot-mark +and gone slowly up the winding footpath through the wood. Here he had +rooted up the moss and wood sorrel. There he had dug quite a deep hole +for dog darnel; and had set a mole trap. A little stream crossed the +way. Benjamin skipped lightly over dry-foot; the badger's heavy steps +showed plainly in the mud. + +The path led to a part of the thicket where the trees had been cleared; +there were leafy oak stumps, and a sea of blue hyacinths--but the smell +that made Benjamin stop, was _not_ the smell of flowers! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod's stick house was before him and, for once, Mr. Tod was at home. +There was not only a foxey flavour in proof of it--there was smoke +coming out of the broken pail that served as a chimney. + +Benjamin Bunny sat up, staring; his whiskers twitched. Inside the stick +house somebody dropped a plate, and said something. Benjamin stamped his +foot, and bolted. + +He never stopped till he came to the other side of the wood. Apparently +Tommy Brock had turned the same way. Upon the top of the wall, there +were again the marks of badger; and some ravellings of a sack had caught +on a briar. + +Benjamin climbed over the wall, into a meadow. He found another mole +trap newly set; he was still upon the track of Tommy Brock. It was +getting late in the afternoon. Other rabbits were coming out to enjoy +the evening air. One of them in a blue coat by himself, was busily +hunting for dandelions.--"Cousin Peter! Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit!" +shouted Benjamin Bunny. + +The blue coated rabbit sat up with pricked ears-- + +[Illustration] + +"Whatever is the matter, Cousin Benjamin? Is it a cat? or John Stoat +Ferret?" + +"No, no, no! He's bagged my family--Tommy Brock--in a sack--have you +seen him?" + +"Tommy Brock? how many, Cousin Benjamin?" + +"Seven, Cousin Peter, and all of them twins! Did he come this way? +Please tell me quick!" + +[Illustration] + +"Yes, yes; not ten minutes since ... he said they were _caterpillars_; I +did think they were kicking rather hard, for caterpillars." + +"Which way? which way has he gone, Cousin Peter?" + +"He had a sack with something 'live in it; I watched him set a mole +trap. Let me use my mind, Cousin Benjamin; tell me from the beginning." +Benjamin did so. + +[Illustration] + +"My Uncle Bouncer has displayed a lamentable want of discretion for his +years;" said Peter reflectively, "but there are two hopeful +circumstances. Your family is alive and kicking; and Tommy Brock has had +refreshment. He will probably go to sleep, and keep them for breakfast." +"Which way?" "Cousin Benjamin, compose yourself. I know very well which +way. Because Mr. Tod was at home in the stick-house he has gone to Mr. +Tod's other house, at the top of Bull Banks. I partly know, because he +offered to leave any message at Sister Cottontail's; he said he would be +passing." (Cottontail had married a black rabbit, and gone to live on +the hill). + +Peter hid his dandelions, and accompanied the afflicted parent, who was +all of a twitter. They crossed several fields and began to climb the +hill; the tracks of Tommy Brock were plainly to be seen. He seemed to +have put down the sack every dozen yards, to rest. + +"He must be very puffed; we are close behind him, by the scent. What a +nasty person!" said Peter. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The sunshine was still warm and slanting on the hill pastures. Half way +up, Cottontail was sitting in her doorway, with four or five half-grown +little rabbits playing about her; one black and the others brown. + +Cottontail had seen Tommy Brock passing in the distance. Asked whether +her husband was at home she replied that Tommy Brock had rested twice +while she watched him. + +He had nodded, and pointed to the sack, and seemed doubled up with +laughing.--"Come away, Peter; he will be cooking them; come quicker!" +said Benjamin Bunny. + +They climbed up and up;--"He was at home; I saw his black ears peeping +out of the hole." "They live too near the rocks to quarrel with their +neighbours. Come on, Cousin Benjamin!" + +When they came near the wood at the top of Bull Banks, they went +cautiously. The trees grew amongst heaped up rocks; and there, beneath a +crag--Mr. Tod had made one of his homes. It was at the top of a steep +bank; the rocks and bushes overhung it. The rabbits crept up carefully, +listening and peeping. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +This house was something between a cave, a prison, and a tumbledown +pig-stye. There was a strong door, which was shut and locked. + +The setting sun made the window panes glow like red flame; but the +kitchen fire was not alight. It was neatly laid with dry sticks, as the +rabbits could see, when they peeped through the window. + +Benjamin sighed with relief. + +[Illustration] + +But there were preparations upon the kitchen table which made him +shudder. There was an immense empty pie-dish of blue willow pattern, and +a large carving knife and fork, and a chopper. + +At the other end of the table was a partly unfolded tablecloth, a plate, +a tumbler, a knife and fork, salt-cellar, mustard and a chair--in short, +preparations for one person's supper. + +[Illustration] + +No person was to be seen, and no young rabbits. The kitchen was empty +and silent; the clock had run down. Peter and Benjamin flattened their +noses against the window, and stared into the dusk. + +Then they scrambled round the rocks to the other side of the house. It +was damp and smelly, and overgrown with thorns and briars. + +The rabbits shivered in their shoes. + +"Oh my poor rabbit babies! What a dreadful place; I shall never see them +again!" sighed Benjamin. + +They crept up to the bedroom window. It was closed and bolted like the +kitchen. But there were signs that this window had been recently open; +the cobwebs were disturbed, and there were fresh dirty footmarks upon +the window-sill. + +The room inside was so dark, that at first they could make out nothing; +but they could hear a noise--a slow deep regular snoring grunt. And as +their eyes became accustomed to the darkness, they perceived that +somebody was asleep on Mr. Tod's bed, curled up under the blanket.--"He +has gone to bed in his boots," whispered Peter. + +[Illustration] + +Benjamin, who was all of a twitter, pulled Peter off the window-sill. + +Tommy Brock's snores continued, grunty and regular from Mr. Tod's bed. +Nothing could be seen of the young family. + +The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood. There were many +unpleasant things lying about, that had much better have been buried; +rabbit bones and skulls, and chickens' legs and other horrors. It was a +shocking place, and very dark. + +They went back to the front of the house, and tried in every way to move +the bolt of the kitchen window. They tried to push up a rusty nail +between the window sashes; but it was of no use, especially without a +light. + +[Illustration] + +They sat side by side outside the window, whispering and listening. + +In half an hour the moon rose over the wood. It shone full and clear and +cold, upon the house amongst the rocks, and in at the kitchen window. +But alas, no little rabbit babies were to be seen! + +The moonbeams twinkled on the carving knife and the pie dish, and made a +path of brightness across the dirty floor. + +The light showed a little door in a wall beside the kitchen +fireplace--a little iron door belonging to a brick oven, of that +old-fashioned sort that used to be heated with faggots of wood. + +And presently at the same moment Peter and Benjamin noticed that +whenever they shook the window--the little door opposite shook in +answer. The young family were alive; shut up in the oven! + +[Illustration] + +Benjamin was so excited that it was a mercy he did not awake Tommy +Brock, whose snores continued solemnly in Mr. Tod's bed. + +But there really was not very much comfort in the discovery. They could +not open the window; and although the young family was alive--the little +rabbits were quite incapable of letting themselves out; they were not +old enough to crawl. + +After much whispering, Peter and Benjamin decided to dig a tunnel. They +began to burrow a yard or two lower down the bank. They hoped that they +might be able to work between the large stones under the house; the +kitchen floor was so dirty that it was impossible to say whether it was +made of earth or flags. + +[Illustration] + +They dug and dug for hours. They could not tunnel straight on account of +stones; but by the end of the night they were under the kitchen floor. +Benjamin was on his back, scratching upwards. Peter's claws were worn +down; he was outside the tunnel, shuffling sand away. He called out that +it was morning--sunrise; and that the jays were making a noise down +below in the woods. + +Benjamin Bunny came out of the dark tunnel, shaking the sand from his +ears; he cleaned his face with his paws. Every minute the sun shone +warmer on the top of the hill. In the valley there was a sea of white +mist, with golden tops of trees showing through. + +Again from the fields down below in the mist there came the angry cry of +a jay--followed by the sharp yelping bark of a fox! + +Then those two rabbits lost their heads completely. They did the most +foolish thing that they could have done. They rushed into their short +new tunnel, and hid themselves at the top end of it, under Mr. Tod's +kitchen floor. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod was coming up Bull Banks, and he was in the very worst of +tempers. First he had been upset by breaking the plate. It was his own +fault; but it was a china plate, the last of the dinner service that had +belonged to his grandmother, old Vixen Tod. Then the midges had been +very bad. And he had failed to catch a hen pheasant on her nest; and it +had contained only five eggs, two of them addled. Mr. Tod had had an +unsatisfactory night. + +[Illustration] + +As usual, when out of humour, he determined to move house. First he +tried the pollard willow, but it was damp; and the otters had left a +dead fish near it. Mr. Tod likes nobody's leavings but his own. + +He made his way up the hill; his temper was not improved by noticing +unmistakable marks of badger. No one else grubs up the moss so wantonly +as Tommy Brock. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod slapped his stick upon the earth and fumed; he guessed where +Tommy Brock had gone to. He was further annoyed by the jay bird which +followed him persistently. It flew from tree to tree and scolded, +warning every rabbit within hearing that either a cat or a fox was +coming up the plantation. Once when it flew screaming over his head--Mr. +Tod snapped at it, and barked. + +He approached his house very carefully, with a large rusty key. He +sniffed and his whiskers bristled. The house was locked up, but Mr. Tod +had his doubts whether it was empty. He turned the rusty key in the +lock; the rabbits below could hear it. Mr. Tod opened the door +cautiously and went in. + +[Illustration] + +The sight that met Mr. Tod's eyes in Mr. Tod's kitchen made Mr. Tod +furious. There was Mr. Tod's chair, and Mr. Tod's pie dish, and his +knife and fork and mustard and salt cellar and his table-cloth that he +had left folded up in the dresser--all set out for supper (or +breakfast)--without doubt for that odious Tommy Brock. + +There was a smell of fresh earth and dirty badger, which fortunately +overpowered all smell of rabbit. + +But what absorbed Mr. Tod's attention was a noise--a deep slow regular +snoring grunting noise, coming from his own bed. + +He peeped through the hinges of the half-open bedroom door. Then he +turned and came out of the house in a hurry. His whiskers bristled and +his coat-collar stood on end with rage. + +[Illustration] + +For the next twenty minutes Mr. Tod kept creeping cautiously into the +house, and retreating hurriedly out again. By degrees he ventured +further in--right into the bedroom. When he was outside the house, he +scratched up the earth with fury. But when he was inside--he did not +like the look of Tommy Brock's teeth. + +He was lying on his back with his mouth open, grinning from ear to ear. +He snored peacefully and regularly; but one eye was not perfectly shut. + +Mr. Tod came in and out of the bedroom. Twice he brought in his +walking-stick, and once he brought in the coal-scuttle. But he thought +better of it, and took them away. + +[Illustration] + +When he came back after removing the coal-scuttle, Tommy Brock was lying +a little more sideways; but he seemed even sounder asleep. He was an +incurably indolent person; he was not in the least afraid of Mr. Tod; he +was simply too lazy and comfortable to move. + +Mr. Tod came back yet again into the bedroom with a clothes line. He +stood a minute watching Tommy Brock and listening attentively to the +snores. They were very loud indeed, but seemed quite natural. + +Mr. Tod turned his back towards the bed, and undid the window. It +creaked; he turned round with a jump. Tommy Brock, who had opened one +eye--shut it hastily. The snores continued. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod's proceedings were peculiar, and rather uneasy, (because the bed +was between the window and the door of the bedroom). He opened the +window a little way, and pushed out the greater part of the clothes line +on to the window sill. The rest of the line, with a hook at the end, +remained in his hand. + +Tommy Brock snored conscientiously. Mr. Tod stood and looked at him for +a minute; then he left the room again. + +Tommy Brock opened both eyes, and looked at the rope and grinned. There +was a noise outside the window. Tommy Brock shut his eyes in a hurry. + +Mr. Tod had gone out at the front door, and round to the back of the +house. On the way, he stumbled over the rabbit burrow. If he had had any +idea who was inside it, he would have pulled them out quickly. + +[Illustration] + +His foot went through the tunnel nearly upon the top of Peter Rabbit and +Benjamin, but fortunately he thought that it was some more of Tommy +Brock's work. + +He took up the coil of line from the sill, listened for a moment, and +then tied the rope to a tree. + +Tommy Brock watched him with one eye, through the window. He was +puzzled. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod fetched a large heavy pailful of water from the spring, and +staggered with it through the kitchen into his bedroom. + +Tommy Brock snored industriously, with rather a snort. + +Mr. Tod put down the pail beside the bed, took up the end of rope with +the hook--hesitated, and looked at Tommy Brock. The snores were almost +apoplectic; but the grin was not quite so big. + +Mr. Tod gingerly mounted a chair by the head of the bedstead. His legs +were dangerously near to Tommy Brock's teeth. + +He reached up and put the end of rope, with the hook, over the head of +the tester bed, where the curtains ought to hang. + +(Mr. Tod's curtains were folded up, and put away, owing to the house +being unoccupied. So was the counterpane. Tommy Brock was covered with a +blanket only.) Mr. Tod standing on the unsteady chair looked down upon +him attentively; he really was a first prize sound sleeper! + +It seemed as though nothing would waken him--not even the flapping rope +across the bed. + +Mr. Tod descended safely from the chair, and endeavoured to get up again +with the pail of water. He intended to hang it from the hook, dangling +over the head of Tommy Brock, in order to make a sort of shower-bath, +worked by a string, through the window. + +[Illustration] + +But naturally being a thin-legged person (though vindictive and sandy +whiskered)--he was quite unable to lift the heavy weight to the level of +the hook and rope. He very nearly overbalanced himself. + +The snores became more and more apoplectic. One of Tommy Brock's hind +legs twitched under the blanket, but still he slept on peacefully. + +Mr. Tod and the pail descended from the chair without accident. After +considerable thought, he emptied the water into a wash-basin and jug. +The empty pail was not too heavy for him; he slung it up wobbling over +the head of Tommy Brock. + +Surely there never was such a sleeper! Mr. Tod got up and down, down and +up on the chair. + +As he could not lift the whole pailful of water at once, he fetched a +milk jug, and ladled quarts of water into the pail by degrees. The pail +got fuller and fuller, and swung like a pendulum. Occasionally a drop +splashed over; but still Tommy Brock snored regularly and never +moved,--except one eye. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +At last Mr. Tod's preparations were complete. The pail was full of +water; the rope was tightly strained over the top of the bed, and across +the window sill to the tree outside. + +"It will make a great mess in my bedroom; but I could never sleep in +that bed again without a spring cleaning of some sort," said Mr. Tod. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod took a last look at the badger and softly left the room. He went +out of the house, shutting the front door. The rabbits heard his +footsteps over the tunnel. + +He ran round behind the house, intending to undo the rope in order to +let fall the pailful of water upon Tommy Brock-- + +"I will wake him up with an unpleasant surprise," said Mr. Tod. + +The moment he had gone, Tommy Brock got up in a hurry; he rolled Mr. +Tod's dressing-gown into a bundle, put it into the bed beneath the pail +of water instead of himself, and left the room also--grinning immensely. + +He went into the kitchen, lighted the fire and boiled the kettle; for +the moment he did not trouble himself to cook the baby rabbits. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +When Mr. Tod got to the tree, he found that the weight and strain had +dragged the knot so tight that it was past untying. He was obliged to +gnaw it with his teeth. He chewed and gnawed for more than twenty +minutes. At last the rope gave way with such a sudden jerk that it +nearly pulled his teeth out, and quite knocked him over backwards. + +[Illustration] + +Inside the house there was a great crash and splash, and the noise of a +pail rolling over and over. + +But no screams. Mr. Tod was mystified; he sat quite still, and listened +attentively. Then he peeped in at the window. The water was dripping +from the bed, the pail had rolled into a corner. + +In the middle of the bed under the blanket, was a wet flattened +_something_--much dinged in, in the middle where the pail had caught it +(as it were across the tummy). Its head was covered by the wet blanket +and it was _not snoring any longer_. + +There was nothing stirring, and no sound except the drip, drop, drop +drip of water trickling from the mattress. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Tod watched it for half an hour; his eyes glistened. + +Then he cut a caper, and became so bold that he even tapped at the +window; but the bundle never moved. + +Yes--there was no doubt about it--it had turned out even better than he +had planned; the pail had hit poor old Tommy Brock, and killed him +dead! + +"I will bury that nasty person in the hole which he has dug. I will +bring my bedding out, and dry it in the sun," said Mr. Tod. + +"I will wash the tablecloth and spread it on the grass in the sun to +bleach. And the blanket must be hung up in the wind; and the bed must be +thoroughly disinfected, and aired with a warming-pan; and warmed with a +hot-water bottle." + +[Illustration] + +"I will get soft soap, and monkey soap, and all sorts of soap; and soda +and scrubbing brushes; and persian powder; and carbolic to remove the +smell. I must have a disinfecting. Perhaps I may have to burn sulphur." + +He hurried round the house to get a shovel from the kitchen--"First I +will arrange the hole--then I will drag out that person in the +blanket...." + +He opened the door.... + +Tommy Brock was sitting at Mr. Tod's kitchen table, pouring out tea from +Mr. Tod's tea-pot into Mr. Tod's tea-cup. He was quite dry himself and +grinning; and he threw the cup of scalding tea all over Mr. Tod. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Then Mr. Tod rushed upon Tommy Brock, and Tommy Brock grappled with Mr. +Tod amongst the broken crockery, and there was a terrific battle all +over the kitchen. To the rabbits underneath it sounded as if the floor +would give way at each crash of falling furniture. + +They crept out of their tunnel, and hung about amongst the rocks and +bushes, listening anxiously. + +[Illustration] + +Inside the house the racket was fearful. The rabbit babies in the oven +woke up trembling; perhaps it was fortunate they were shut up inside. + +Everything was upset except the kitchen table. + +And everything was broken, except the mantelpiece and the kitchen +fender. The crockery was smashed to atoms. + +The chairs were broken, and the window, and the clock fell with a crash, +and there were handfuls of Mr. Tod's sandy whiskers. + +The vases fell off the mantelpiece, the canisters fell off the shelf; +the kettle fell off the hob. Tommy Brock put his foot in a jar of +raspberry jam. + +And the boiling water out of the kettle fell upon the tail of Mr. Tod. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +When the kettle fell, Tommy Brock, who was still grinning, happened to +be uppermost; and he rolled Mr. Tod over and over like a log, out at the +door. + +Then the snarling and worrying went on outside; and they rolled over the +bank, and down hill, bumping over the rocks. There will never be any +love lost between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod. + +[Illustration] + +As soon as the coast was clear, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny came out +of the bushes-- + +"Now for it! Run in, Cousin Benjamin! Run in and get them! while I watch +at the door." + +But Benjamin was frightened-- + +"Oh; oh! they are coming back!" + +"No they are not." + +"Yes they are!" + +"What dreadful bad language! I think they have fallen down the stone +quarry." + +Still Benjamin hesitated, and Peter kept pushing him-- + +"Be quick, it's all right. Shut the oven door, Cousin Benjamin, so that +he won't miss them." + +Decidedly there were lively doings in Mr. Tod's kitchen! + +[Illustration] + +At home in the rabbit hole, things had not been quite comfortable. + +After quarrelling at supper, Flopsy and old Mr. Bouncer had passed a +sleepless night, and quarrelled again at breakfast. Old Mr. Bouncer +could no longer deny that he had invited company into the rabbit hole; +but he refused to reply to the questions and reproaches of Flopsy. The +day passed heavily. + +Old Mr. Bouncer, very sulky, was huddled up in a corner, barricaded with +a chair. Flopsy had taken away his pipe and hidden the tobacco. She had +been having a complete turn out and spring-cleaning, to relieve her +feelings. She had just finished. Old Mr. Bouncer, behind his chair, was +wondering anxiously what she would do next. + +[Illustration] + +In Mr. Tod's kitchen, amongst the wreckage, Benjamin Bunny picked his +way to the oven nervously, through a thick cloud of dust. He opened the +oven door, felt inside, and found something warm and wriggling. He +lifted it out carefully, and rejoined Peter Rabbit. + +"I've got them! Can we get away? Shall we hide, Cousin Peter?" + +Peter pricked his ears; distant sounds of fighting still echoed in the +wood. + +Five minutes afterwards two breathless rabbits came scuttering away down +Bull Banks, half carrying half dragging a sack between them, bumpetty +bump over the grass. They reached home safely and burst into the rabbit +hole. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Great was old Mr. Bouncer's relief and Flopsy's joy when Peter and +Benjamin arrived in triumph with the young family. The rabbit-babies +were rather tumbled and very hungry; they were fed and put to bed. They +soon recovered. + +A long new pipe and a fresh supply of rabbit tobacco was presented to +Mr. Bouncer. He was rather upon his dignity; but he accepted. + +[Illustration] + +Old Mr. Bouncer was forgiven, and they all had dinner. Then Peter and +Benjamin told their story--but they had not waited long enough to be +able to tell the end of the battle between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod. + +THE END + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tale of Mr. Tod, by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MR. 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