Julie writing to Helen, fall 1873:

“That abominable little white rabbit has eaten up half the tulips. The wretch picks them out and sits down and nibbles them before our very eyes, ungrateful animal!  When the bed in which they are planted cost Fanny such hard work, she picked 300 stones out of it.”

Some things don’t change, still planting tulips, still picking stones, and still pondering how best to deal with rodents.  Though it rather sounds as if the white rabbit was a supposed pet….