| Show I I Better Be B It Said There He H Goes Goe Than Here I He Lies Brer Rabbit I HARE H u Mi Mt hare AS hara ham hase ha MD haese D haas Icel her hen Sw S Dan Teutonic stem hasan W Caca for casa a hare GREYHOUND n Less commonly ME IE greyhound gr hound gray hund bund grew hound once corruptly Icel Ice a greyhound I These and many man other mysterious things not generally known to mankind before are discovered In the diction dictionaries dictionaries aries when one begins a chase after the hares and hounds Did the hare know what he is being called by the diction dictionary dictionary dictionary ary would he consider the game worth the candle Did the know that th t he wasn t the whole It that there had been many like him be before before before fore and with ancestors as numerous as any first family could wish for fot would he not up UD and let the hare have his wait wayT way In an idle moment momen some one suggest suggested sUg est ed cd that some one write something about rabbits The some one who sug suggested suggested suggested that realize what he was to the some one who received the suggestion and acted upon it ItI I The subject of ot o rabbits was brought up when FItzGIbbon remarked that inasmuch as the Salvation Army is preparing a dinner for all the poor on would have been well had the hares killed at the recent I r I 11 i 3 i r I A 0 Native NaIve rabbits are little li tle good for coursing because they are always up in the air coursing meet u beenk been available seeing as he said in his ignorance they went to waste as It was Approximately three hundred and fifty fifty fifty ty brought hither for the th coursing meet This is based on the estimate that of the hares slipped escaped and were coursed again But was wholly holly wrong Tong I when he suggested that the hares that were killed on the coursing field went to waste Had FitzGibbon gone one to the slippers box he would have noted there ambitious and hungry young America I II II I I k Three drinks of some kinds of whisky will make a jackrabbit spit in a bulldogs face faceIn 4 In the shape of the small boy bo eager and scrambling for or the dead rabbits Fitz Fits FitzGibbon FitzGibbon Gibbon and all ail who are interested may rest assured that the coursing meet each day provided the family dinner in homes Estimating the weight wel ht of each rabbit at four pounds the coursing meet at least had the ef effect effect feet of sending into homes that were practically meatless 1200 pounds of good food I i Being on the subject S t of rabbits i iI FitzGibbon also W wanted anted to know kr v why I the native animal was not used In Instead Instead instead stead of bringing in hares from Cali California California California fornia The reason remarked Johnnie Burke in reply ls Js s because the native hares are Jumpers and do not run close to the ground The same question was asked many man of the coursing men during the meet why did aid they not bring in the big strong Jacks from Kansas or Colorado The is that the jackass rabbit the name he e goes oes by In the book leaps high into the air when running and is therefore not nearly neary so agile when he comes to earth again and finds it his turn to move at right angles The tes testimony testimony testimony of coursing men is that a hare is the more sly of ot the two and that the jackrabbit does his work mostly In Inthe Inthe inthe the air As neither the hare nor the rabbit is as swift as a greyhound it follows that the one which Is the more clever In cutting corners comers is th fellow that stands the best chance of getting away gives the dogs the best tests and the coursers their best sport The dictionary calls the poor hare many man fierce and ferocious names but few will believe he is as wicked as these characterizations would Imply For or example the dictionary tells telis one that the hare Is a rodent mammal of the family Such terms as I 1 L I 1 L and Lepus are applied to the hare without any ny apparent fear tear of the con consequences consequences consequences sequences on tie the part of ot the lexicographer But whatever abuse may be heaped upon the hare the jackass rab bit comes in for his share of ot the scorching for it is said of him that he heis heis heis is JL jt L calloUs and jackrabbit would stand for that kind of slander There Is another species of hare which is openly accused d of being L Ll LI The man who vho made the dic die dictionary dictionary followed up this slur with the remark that a characteristic of the hare is timidity Perhaps remarked one of the group he lie never neer heard he rd that three r r 1 1 r rg I g 14 1 When Tige took took a fall out o t of of the rock rabbit drinks of some kinds of ot whisky will ill make a jackrabbit spit in a bulldogs face as true as be because because because cause I saw it tried The people of Palestine who lived during durin the time of which the Bible Biblo takes lakes account ap had little love for the hare for tor he was declared to be an unclean little brute and unfit for human h man food tood The verification of this is found in Lev 16 1 6 where It Is related that the hare is unclean be beAn beAsT AsT An available candidate for hasan r rause cause Lause he the cud but divid eth not the hoof he Is unclean unclean unto you OU Writers on natural history assign to Palestine four distinct species of the hare The rabbit is past master of the art artand artand artand and science of propagating his species The animal is so prolific that the rap rapid rapId rapId id and unrestrained breeding has re resulted resulted suited in a condition that showed men menace menace menace ace for the farmer and the horticulturist horticulturist horticulturist This is especially true frue of ot Aus Australia Australia Australia where the rabbit rabbet has become a decided pest vest with little hope of oC exter exterminating exterminating him except with poison polson naturally would exterminate a good many other species of animals now enjoying the friendship and pro protection protection protection of mankind The books say that the hare breeds at the age of oC six months that there are six or eight litters a year with a brood of eight or ten comprising the litter From this It can be easily un wi understood understood that where the rabbit Is al allowed allowed allowed lowed to multiply without interference there presently prese ly will be many of him The situation In Australia a few years year ago became so 80 serious that the government was asked for assistance It is said Mid that the millions of rabbits that now now Infest Australia are are the chil children children children dren the grandchildren and the great of a fine pair of young rabbits that were brought to the con continent continent continent in an English sailing vessel vesselIn x 1 I In running hurriedly through the works of reference picking at random here and there one finds that a rab bit It has many kinsfolk For example ex mple there is the which is a along long slender oyster The rabbit fish mus mu be some some pumpkins for tor they say y he is isa Isa isa a fish of the family Then there lis is the ornamental stone rabbit which reposes so gracefully In Inthe Inthe inthe the front yard and Into whose cast Iron sides Tige ever and again sinks his teeth t eth ethIn J In Utah tah they used to have hae ha e rabbit drives at which hundreds and thou thousands thousands thousands sands Were Weme rounded up by the of a community with extended nets in California they use usef fences expressly built for the tho purpose The dead rabbits were sent to the cities to be distributed among the poor Just before Thanks Thanksgiving Thanksgiving giving In this state the most ful tul drives were held in the vicinity of Payson where at one time rabbits were so plentiful as to be a positive dan danger danger ger r In Colorado the rabbit drive is isan Isan isan an annual annuli event and in California tens of thousands are encircled and slain each year Jear to be lie made into the delicious hasan haan of the Germans or the th thI plain stew with dumplings of or the I Americana Idaho in the vicinity of Idaho Falls has had some of the most notable rabbit drives In history Another species of If the animal is the I Welsh rabbit sometimes called the Welsh rarebit This is a most ferocious beast and bears an implacable animos animosity ity toward the human race It prowls prow about usually Just after aCter the theatre is 15 over oyer lying in wait walt for or its prey Pre preyat Preat at the doors of cafes and eat lug houses No Xo one has ever eer been known to wage a successful warfare on the Welsh rabbit although the struggle still continues nightly 5 a aThe Or OrThe The main difference between a hare haro and a rabbit Is that the former lives Uns in informs informs informs forms or nests nesta constructed upon the th ground while the latter live in warrens arre s sor or burrows The hare is solitary In his habits and not a hit bit social socia on the contrary the rabbits wife gives a 2 pink tea nearly near every day daJ I Ie Experiments have proved that rab rabbits rabbits rabbits bits In the breeding maybe mabe marked al almost almost almost most at will For instance In tance If one OIle paint black spots on a white rabbit there is a good chance that the th young oung will be spotted It has been suggested ted that this condition might be developed into an advertising scheme of surpass surpassing ing lug merit A merchant could coul write the th name of the thing he wants to heave off of most on the rabbits side and pres presently presently presently there will be all manner of rab rabbits rabbits rabbits bits running about telling the people all about it ff So with these thes wandering wandering reflections on the life and times of the forty species species cies des of ot the hare In America and his hia progenitors In Europe Eurove the suggestion su may not be amiss that if any anyone one has any more rabbits than he needs see that the charitable get them |
