Early Maine attic find mohair stuffed bunny rabbit toy
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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
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