“There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well. A batsman who has played a fine innings will say afterward that he felt he could not miss the ball, and a speaker or an actor, on his lucky day can sense his audience carrying him as though he were swimming in miraculous, buoyant water. Hazel had this feeling now. Al around him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side. There was nothing to fear and he felt ready to skip through a thousand barnyards.”
Excerpted from “Watership Down”, author, Richard Adams. Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 866 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.
Hazel is a rabbit. Islander.