The Burgess Animal Book For Children in "Prickly Porky And Grubby Gopher"

All the way to school the next morning Ryder Rabbit wondered who they would learn about that day. He was so busy wondering that he was heedless. Ryder is apt to be heedless at times. The result was that as he hopped out of a bramble-tangle just within the edge of the Green Forest, he all but landed in something worse than the worst brambles that ever grew. It was only by a wild side jump that he saved himself.