Red Rabbit #5, September 1947. Dearfield Publishing. The artist is Harvey Eisenberg.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Eisenberg

AlAll the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.” Lord Frith to El-Ahrairah. ― Richard Adams, Watership Down https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-book-of-betrayal.html  

 This is Billy.  Orphaned as a small bunny, my brother found him alone and starving and brought him home. He is a wonderful person and has been a delight to live with.  He likes reading outside among the trees and flowers.  This is his favorite book, The Wind In The Willows, a gift from a kindly teacher. He always dresses well and is the politest creature imaginable.  Later today we will go get ice cream, he has many friends in town and loves to chat with them.  He means the world to us. He's read this book so much it's falling apart.  I guess the story of talking animals is a world he wants to live in, I know he feels out of place here.

(While Toad is in prison for stealing a motor-car, the stoats and weasels have occupied Toad Hall. Ratty, Badger and Mole come up with a plan of attack and are determined to win back the Hall for the not very worthy Toad). WHEN it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. He was very earnest and thorough-going about it, and the affair took quite a long time. First, there was a belt to go round each animal, and then a sword to be stuck into each belt, and then a cutlass on the other side to balance it. Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of handcuffs, some bandages and sticking-plaster, and a flask and a sandwich-case. The Badger laughed good-humouredly and said, "All right, Ratty! It amuses you and it doesn't hurt me. I'm going to do all I've got to do with this here s...