Show GET ALONG WITHOUT WATER rabbits and other animals on the southwestern desert have never beer known to drink A curious fact in connection mith animal life on the deserts of the southwest is that rabbits quail squirrels door atit antelope elope the mountain sheep and any number ot of reptiles and insects live at great distances from visible water TUB the jack rabbit Is specially notable in this respect and moreover flourishes in regions without a parti cleot cleof green food in sight eight for miles and miles westerners assert that the jack rabbit may be found happy and tat fat spending the day under a scrap of bush that makes little more shade than a fish fishnet net ills hla skin Is as an porous as a piece of buckskin and the heat Is sufficient to evaporate every drop of blood in his body yet he seems to got get on very nicely californians aver that to no one has ever seen a jack rabbit drink those who have camped for days on the deserts in vicinities where the only water tor for miles round was to be found and with rabbits everywhere declare that never does one ona of the little fellows come to the springs to drink men have even gone so far as aa to examine the margins of water holes in those districts with never a 0 track of the rabbit disclosed beyond where the grass grow ono man tells of at i a raid off abbata one ona summer that was beyond all conception by an stener ea the animals were so bold that they would come in before sundown the irrigation ditches maintained by this man contained the only water to be found for leagues ife he was irrigating sixty acres alone and was up at daylight and on the ground till dark when rabbits by the dozen were trying to get at the alfalfa hut but during the three months of extreme heat that then prevailed when rabbits poured lu on an him from the dry hills he declares that never was one of them seen to touch the water the sunday magazine |