Watership Down Page #5

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For my friend stopped running today"

You pay for it. The food, the warren. But

no one must ever ask where anyone was...

Or speak of the wires.

The whole place is snared, everywhere.

- They left Bigwig to die.

- Silver's right.

Let's drive them out,

take their warren and live there ourselves.

Yes. Back to the warren.

- Back to the warren.

- Embleer Frith, you fools!

That warren's nothing but a death hole.

Let's help ourselves to a roof of bones.

Who killed them?

Bigwig! You're alive!

- Are you all right?

- We thought you were dead.

- Let him alone. Let him rest.

- I don't have to rest.

- What do we do now, Fiver?

- Go away from here.

Look. Look.

That's the place for us. High, lonely hills...

Where the wind and the sound carry,

and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn.

That's where we ought to be.

That's where we have to get to.

Pipkin.

Pipkin.

Pipkin!

Why don't we go

and look around the farm?

Farm, Hazel? What for?

- Cats and dogs.

- I've got a little plan.

- Won't it be dangerous?

- Of course not.

- Is it safe?

- Of course.

- Let's all go.

- No.

Just you and me.

I think I see a dog.

Where? It's tied up.

Give it a wide berth. We don't want it

to wake up the whole farm.

This is the BBC Home Service.

They are up. Hazel?

- Let's go back.

- Just a little further.

Rabbits. So, that's your secret plan.

I'm going inside to take a look around.

Is it safe in there?

Of course. You wait here.

- But if you see a cat...

- A cat?

- You will let me know at once, all right?

- Right.

I'm Hazel.

Hazel.

My name's Clover.

- Where do you come from?

- Far away.

My friends and I live as we please.

We eat grass, lie in the sun.

- Do you ever get out?

- Oh, yes.

Sometimes, a child takes us

out on the grass.

- Would you like to join us?

- Join you? But how?

How can we join you?

Hazel! There's a cat outside.

I must go back to my friends.

But we'll be back, and any of you

who wish can come along with us.

- Where is it?

- There. I think it smelt us.

- I'll get you away.

- Thank you.

- Just follow me closely.

- Yes.

- And run when I do.

- Run when you do.

You look hungry.

Rats getting too clever, I suppose.

I bet you can't run at all.

You pie-eyed, saucer-licking scrap-scraper.

Can you run?

You'll see.

I think not.

What's all that, then?

Tab? Tab!

Let them alone. Cruel thing.

What is it?

There's something coming up

the line of the hedge.

- Can you see it?

- I hear it. It's something big.

- A cat?

- I don't know.

Bigwig!

Quiet. I want to listen.

Bigwig!

Bigwig!

It's the Black Rabbit of lnl!

Don't talk like that. They'll go tharn.

We go by the will of the Black Rabbit.

- When he calls you, you have to go.

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