Unsurprised

It was just a literary exercise published in the school magazine of Manhattan's private Buckley School (for boys). But into his contribution, nine-year-old Kenneth Auchincloss put some of the long, long thoughts of youth. Wrote he:

"Rabbits had been eating our lettuce and carrots for a long time and my father was fed up with it. One day my father and I built a trap. My father thought that we should put a carrot inside a box and attach a string to it and the trap door. This held the door open and allowed the rabbit to come in. That is what we did.

"The next day we found no carrot and no rabbit. I was not surprised. I had not thought it would work."

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