Now Tommy Brock did occasionally eat rabbit pie but it was only very little young ones occasionally when other food was really scarce He was friendly with old Mr Bouncer they agreed in disliking the wicked otters and Mr Tod they often talked over that painful subject Old Mr Bouncer was stricken in years He sat in the spring sunshine outside the burrow in a muffler smoking a pipe of rabbit
He lived with his son Benjamin Bunny and his daughter in law Flopsy who had a young family Old Mr Bouncer was in charge of the family that afternoon because Benjamin and Flopsy had gone
