Jimmy Rabbit was enjoying a few nibbles¹ at one of Farmer Green's cabbages. He hadn't noticed that there was anybody but himself in the garden. So it startled him to hear a shrill² voice cry, "Get out of our garden!"  
Jimmy Rabbit jumped. But he didn't jump far, for he soon saw that it was only Henrietta Hen speaking to him.
 
"Why should I get out of our garden?" Jimmy Rabbit inquired mildly.
 
"I should have said, 'Farmer Green's garden,'" said Henrietta Hen.
 
"Thank you very much for the warning; but I don't think we need go away just yet—if old dog Spot isn't sniffing³ around," said Jimmy Rabbit. "I don't believe there's any danger."
 
"You don't understand," Henrietta Hen cried. "I ordered you out of the garden."
 
"You ordered me?" said Jimmy Rabbit, acting⁴ as if he were astonished.
 
"Yes!" Henrietta declared. "And I'd like to know when you're going to obey me."
 
"It's easy to answer that," Jimmy Rabbit replied. "I'm going away as soon as I've finished my luncheon⁵." Nobody could have been pleasanter than he. Yet Henrietta Hen seemed determined⁶ to be disagreeable.
 
"I don't see your lunch basket," she remarked, looking all around.
 
"No!" he replied. "I forgot it. I meant to bring one with me and carry a cabbage-head home in it."
 
Henrietta Hen spoke⁷ as if she were very peevish⁸.
 
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