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Show RABBITS ARE HARD FIGHTERS. The Charge of Cowardice a Slander Defeat of a Ferret. Tell a man that he hasn't the pluck of a rabbit and if he doesn't disprove it by hitting you he is certain at any rate to be extremely annoyed. Yet the taunt is a libel on the rabbit rab-bit A doe rabbit will fight like fury in defense of her young. She will charge like a battering ram and use those long sharp incissors of hers to capital purpose. An old buck rabbit is not to be lightly light-ly tackled by weasel, stoat or even ferret. fer-ret. On the sanded floor of a small public house near Chestnut a ferret of long experience was matched with an old lop-eared buck, the property ot the landlord. The ferret made straight for the rabbit's rab-bit's throat, but the latter was in the air before master ferret could reach him, and leaping clean over the ferret's fer-ret's head let out with those powerful hind legs of his a kick which hurled the ferret bodily against the wainscot. wains-cot. Twice the ferret returned to the attack and twice he missed his grip and went hurtling through the air. The third repulse was enough for him. He knew he vyu beaten and could not be -persualgAto stand up for a fourth rouna- Pearson's Weekly |
