Chapter 4 - Rabbit invaders
A great cheer went up from the rabbit army as it thundered closer and closer to the bilbies' burrow. Rabbit soldiers loved to fight, even amongst themselves. The bucks were always arguing over who owned the most females. While the female rabbits, or does, often killed one another's young to win more space in the burrow.
Lepus, the rabbit general, wanted his army to grow bigger and stronger. So he kept his troops on the move, constantly invading new territory. When the rabbit army had ruined the land in one area, they simply moved on to the next. The native animals and birds whose homes they destroyed became easy prey for the foxes and feral cats that followed the rabbit army. The rabbit soldiers stormed through the scrub, closer and closer to the bilbies' home. They were almost at Burra Nimu's burrow when they began to scream: "Kill the bilbies! Capture the eggs! Stop them from reaching the children...." |
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