He ran along a little farther and there, behind a bush, he saw an old lady rabbit.
“Excuse me,” Flop Ear said to her, “but are you thumping for any one?”
The old lady rabbit turned around, and who do you suppose she was? Yes, she was Lady Munch, Flop Ear’s grandmother!
“Oh, Grandma! Grandma!” he cried. “I’ve found you at last! Where is my home, and where are all the others?”
“Oh, Flop Ear! Flop Ear!” cried Lady Munch. “You have come home at last. Oh, we thought you were gone forever! Here, Mr. Bunny! Mrs. Bunny! Snuggle and Pink Nose! Come here. Flop Ear is back!”
Out of a hole near by, in the ground, came running the other rabbits. There they were――all of Flop Ear’s family. They ran up to him, hugging and kissing him the way rabbits do. Oh! how glad they were to see him!
“Where have you been, Flop Ear? Where have you been?” they asked him.
“Oh, everywhere,” he answered. “And I have had _so_ many adventures! But how is it you are living in this new home? This is not where we used to live.”
“We came here after the hunter chased us,” said the papa rabbit, “and we have been living here ever since. We looked everywhere for you but we could not find you.”
“And I was out in front of the new burrow just now, thumping with my feet, and hoping some rabbits might hear it, so I could ask them about you,” said Lady Munch. “And, lo and behold! along you come yourself, Flop Ear.”
“Yes,” said Flop Ear, “and I’m mighty glad I did.”
“But who is your friend?” asked Mamma Bunny, looking at Mappo.
“Oh, he is a merry monkey, who was very kind to me,” said Flop Ear. “He and I have been living in the woods and we have had good times together. His name is Mappo, and he knows Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, in the circus.”
“And what’s an elephant?” Snuggle demanded.
“I’ll tell you all about it,” said Flop Ear, and he did.
All the adventures that had happened to him since he had run away did Flop Ear tell to his brother and sister. Papa and Mamma Bunny listened also, as did Lady Munch.
“But oh! how glad I am to be at home again,” said Flop Ear. “I hope no more hunters will come along.”
Flop Ear was taken down into the new burrow and given something to eat. He liked the new home very much. Mappo, the monkey, was too large to go down into the underground house, but he found a place in a tree where he could stay all night, and the rabbits gave him some supper.