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Way back yonder when the Moon was lots bigger then he is now, when the nights were long and the days were short, with plenty of wood on the fire and sweet potatoes in the embers this little bunny could outdo all the other creatures. He was born little, so no matter wabouts you put him, he could cut capers and play pranks. What he couldn't do with his feet he could do with his head, and when his head got him into trouble, he put his dependence back on his feet, because that's w he kept his lippity-clip and blickety-blick. Which leads me to this tale.Several months ago,( June to be exact) while driving down a side street in Brunswick Maine a few blocks from the Bowdoin College campus, I happened upon an unadvertised yard sale. I knew that the house had been sold and it contained over five generations of one family's accumulated possessions.And, I also knew that the place had been cherry picked and picked again and had recently given up a wealth of early Maine shipbuilding paper. This place was the real deal, already on the historic register as it had housed the likes of Longfellow, and was purportedly a safe house in the underground railroad. Though I knew that I was already a day late and a dollar short so to speak, the mere sight of "stuff" being hauled out of the house and strewn on the lawn was enough for me to stop. An 1800's lap desk over t.. how much? I ask. Couple of bucks he answers. I go back to the car and make a deal with my 13 year old daughter and partner in crime that buys me a half hour at this house.Because of early morning rain, I still had the jump on the other pickers out t on the hunt. The pile grows, the cash flows, and pretty soon I'm in the basement humping 16 boxes of glass insulators out to the car ( about 200 of the things and I drop the best one and it breaks!)Forty five minutes later I'm in the attic at over 100 degrees,I think I'm going to die.Oh well, better this fate than what is waiting for me out in the car! A shopping trip to the mall will fix that. T on the attic floor with other forgotten Maine primitives peak'n up at me from a pile of old linens is this early Maine mohair wool stuffed bunny rabbit toy. Boy it's hot up ! I look back and I t he is wink'n at me! Now I hear voices from w I'm not sure but that damn rabbit is communicating with me. I swear! "Mister you ain't leave'n with out me!" So I reach down and grab the little bugger and climb down from the infernal place. Now as you can see this little fellow has been loved and loved and finally forgotten. Stitched and restitched, button eyes who knows how many he's had? Ears nibbled and chewed teethed on by a little miss many years ago. All of the attics contents appear to range from the 1840s to the 1870s. Though this toy rabbit appears later than that.Measures about a foot. This little fellow is soft and buttery sweet.One of the cutest I've had! Offered tonight as humble,honest,old, and no reserve. Say what you want, this little fellow still has plenty of lippity-clip, and blickety-blick!
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