But as it went on naturally growing, seldom appearing to make much noise, unless there was a man very near it, and even then keeping him from doing any harm--outside the disturbance that he lives in--without so much as a council called, they tolerated this encroachment.

Some of the bolder fathers came and sat inside to consider it, and left their compliments all round to the masters of the enterprise.

And even when Daniel came to work, as he happened to do this afternoon, they carried on their own work in its highest form--that of play--upon the premises they lent him.
Though not very large, it was a lively, punctual, well-conducted, and pleasant rabbit-warren.

Sudden death was avoidable on the part of most of its members, nets, ferrets, gins, and wires being alike forbidden, foxes scarcely ever seen, and even guns a rare and very memorable visitation.

The headland staves the southern storm, sand-hills shevelled with long rush disarm the western fury, while inland gales from north and east leap into the clouds from the uplands.