Show A bad day for babbit very few persona have ever en gael in such hunt for rabbits as a party of young men living near homer participated in one day recently in the absence of all large game and the prohibition aa to shooting chickens and quails the young banners pass away the monotony of the wintry days by organizing gan izing hunting parties which omer into competition as to which party will bring in the most game by a given time usually these competition hunts are between the young men of different neighborhoods bo and neighborhood honor is a big thing in this country A very exciting hunt was made by two parties of farmers living near homer which on account of the number of men engaged and the amount of game bagged will be household lore in the neighborhood for many winters there was one company of twenty five men and another of twenty four men all had to have their game in by 7 in the evening and most of the men started in quest of brer babbit before daylight and they gathered them in from the highways and hedges for when the count was made in the evening one party had secured rabbits while the other had making a total of 1158 A sumptuous supper waa spread that night for which the defeated party had to pay then the rabbits were bold and the money divided into three purses which were presented to the men who killed the most rabbits jess doney took first having captured sixty nine feast hall had sixty eight and edward brown sixty probably so large a number of rabbits wera never killed by one party in illinois in one day chicago inter ocean |