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The rabbit, after several violent pokes, went off, walking fast and brandishing the umbrella; the ferrets followed him; Miss Catherine also followed—at a distance.
The rabbit made no attempt to get right away; from time to time he stopped and waved the umbrella defiantly. They saw him go over a mossy tumble-down wall, and disappear.
John Stoat-Ferret and his cousin Slimmy, being short-legged and in gaiters, went through a conveniently arranged tunnel under a wall, But they did not come out at the other side; they had walked into one of Mr. Tod's traps!
There we will leave them, as the rabbit did, after he had come near enough to make sure that they were fast.
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