No work and no play.

Rotten." The Haddock, it may be stated, owed his fishy title to the fact that he once possessed a Wealthy Relative of the name of Haddon.

With far-sighted reversionary intent his mother, a Mrs.Berners _nee_ Seymour Stukeley, had christened him Haddon.
But the Wealthy Relative, on being informed of his good fortune, had bluntly replied that he intended to leave his little all to the founding of Night-Schools for illiterate Members of Parliament, Travelling-Scholarships for uneducated Cabinet Ministers, and Deportment Classes for New Radical Peers.

He was a Funny Man as well as a Wealthy Relative.
And, thereafter, Haddon Berners' parents had, as Cook put it, "up and died" and "Grandfather" had sent for, and adopted, the orphan Haddock.
Though known to Dam and Lucille as "The Haddock" he was in reality an utter Rabbit and esteemed as such.

A Rabbit he was born, a Rabbit he lived, and a Rabbit he died.