Created by Walter Potter in the late 1890s, the Rabbits' Village School contain 48 rabbits exhibiting various degrees of studiousness, impishness, and confusion.  One little rabbit cries because he blotted his book, one peeks at his neighbour’s slate, the teacher checks a student’s addition, one has a penknife, another admires a sock. The girl rabbits are sewing and knitting while the schoolmistress holds up something that looks like a thimble cosy, but is perhaps a red skirt. The schoolroom is complete with panelled French doors, bookshelves, books, pens and ink wells, slates and chalkboards, desks and benches, and a map, a clock, and a disciplinary cane hang on the wall.