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MOO COW TALES.
"Who are you?" she asked rather timidly, because although this creature was so small it seemed very severe.
"Fancy having to ask who I am!" said the little creature, and sat up on its hind legs proudly. "Why, I and my relations own the whole wood, and could turn you out in the bobbing of a tail."
Of course, we should have said "in the twinkling of an eye," but rabbits (you must have guessed that this little person was a rabbit) don't know anything about twinkling eyes and so they don't talk about them.
"I won't do any harm to
