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The rest of the summer passed very pleasantly. The Bunnies and Squirrels made several visits to their new friends the Brown Bears, who had found a hollow tree for them near their own cave-house. In this tree the bears built a beautiful nest, and made itso comfortable, that, when the time came for the Bunnies and Squirrels to go home for the winter, they promised surely to return the following summer.
One pleasant autumn day the tent was taken down, and with all the other things was packed in the cart. The life-preserver, however, was given as a parting gift to Mr. Brown Bruin, who was much pleased. Neddy, the donkey, was thankfulto get rid of it, as he hated to wear it around his neck.
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Neddy had grown so fat from doing nothing all summer that hecould scarcely waddle, and Bobtail declared he looked like a hippopotamus.
The Bunnies and the Gray-Squirrels felt very sad to leave their kind friends the Brown Bears, and the pretty camp with its running brook, but winter was coming and soon the nights would be cold so far up in the mountains.
They reached home after several days of travel, without any accident,excepting that several times Neddy insisted on lying down in the road and taking naps.
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The Gray-Squirrels said good-bye to the Bunnies, as they livedseveral miles away, and that night they all settled down comfortably in their warm winter nests.
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