Holly tells the others what happened on the ill-fated mission to bring does from the big warren...
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Fiver dreams of Hazel, and launches a rescue mission...
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Hazel leads a dangerous mission back to Nuthanger Farm to free the hutch rabbits...
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Whilst Holly and Silver look for the big warren, Hazel and Fiver set off on an adventure of their own...
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Bigwig makes an unusual friend...
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Bluebell tells the story of the time El-ahrairah was put on trial for the theft of Prince Rainbow's carrots...
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Holly tells the terrible story of what happened at the Sandleford warren after Hazel and the others had left...
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Hazel makes a new friend, and the rabbits prepare to hear Holly's story...
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A strange and terrible voice causes panic...
1. Vagabond - Bigwig's word is 'hlessil', which I have rendered in various places in the story as wanderers, scratchers, vagabonds. A 'hlessi' is a rabbit living in the open, without a hole. Solitary bucks and unmated rabbits who are wandering do this for quite long periods especially in summer. Bucks do not usualy dig much in any case, although they will scratch shallow shelters or make use of existing holes where these are available. Real digging is done by the most part by does preparing for litters.
2. 'Zorn' means 'finished' or 'destroyed', in the sense of some terrible catastrophe.
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Hazel and the others finally reach the foot of the hills that Fiver had described. Could they get to the top, and what would they find if they got there?
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The warren's terrible secrets are unearthed...
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The new warren's storyteller has a strange and terrible effect on Fiver...
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Dandelion tells the rabbits of the new warren a bedtime story of one of El-ahrairah's most famous tricks...
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Fiver struggles to explain his misgiovings about the new warren.
Silflay - Go above ground to eat
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Cowslip's warren is breathtaking... only Fiver seems unimpressed.
Nildro-Hain - the song of the blackbird
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The rabbits discover that they are not alone...
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The question of was to be Leader is settled...
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Hazel and Fiver find themselves in a difficult spot, and morale among some of the others is beginning to drop...
The rabbits discover somewhere safer to rest, but not before they must fight an enemy...
1. Hrududu - tractor
2. Bigwig's Owsla rhyme - 'Hoi, hoi, the stinking Thousand, We meet them even when we stop to pass our droppings.'
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Blackberry comes up with a plan to get Pipkin and Fiver across the river...
1. embleer - stinking (the word for the smell of a fox)
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