Huge Carrots

In a garden in the spring, there was a big orange carrot. It was very big. The farmer, an old man, was very proud of that carrot.

One day, a rabbit came and ate the carrot. When the man saw that his carrot was gone, he was beside himself with worry. But, he did not give up. He planted another carrot and put up a fence. The carrot grew again, but this time bigger and oranger. So, when the rabbit passed by the farmer’s house again he left even fuller.

The rabbit dug under the fence. Then, he opened up his mouth so wide that he gobbled the carrot up in one bite. He was so busy chewing on it that he dropped the map he needed to get back home. Then, he left and wandered into the woods.

The farmer, seeing the carrot gone, planted yet another. While digging in the dirt, he found the map the rabbit dropped. He followed the map towards the rabbit’s house. Meanwhile, the rabbit was lost. Without the map he did not know the way back home.

On the way to the rabbit’s house, the farmer saw the rabbit. He realized the rabbit had been eating his carrots! So, he dashed towards it and put it in a cage.

The man then headed back to the garden. On the way there, the rabbit apologized profusely. He did not want the man to eat him. He cried and cried and told the farmer how good the carrots were. The farmer told the rabbit how much he liked carrots too. Slowly, the rabbit stopped crying, and the two had a conversation about how wonderful carrots are.

From that discussion, the two realized they had a lot in common — at the very least, they both loved carrots. So, the farmer decided to let the rabbit go and plant another carrot in the ground. This time, however, the rabbit came by to water the carrot every day. When the carrot got properly big (and it was very big) the farmer and the rabbit both ate it together.