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Show FLORIDA RABBIT A FIGHTER Victor In Remarkable Combat With Dog, as Reported by "Honest and Upright Person." Russell Thompson of Sarasota, a noted angler and dealer in fishing tackle, consequently a very honest and upright person, has submitted the following, fol-lowing, with affidavit attached to the Florida Fisherman. "Last Sunday morning I happened to be standing looking out the window. win-dow. All at once Dr. Jack Halton's bird and hound dog came down the alley al-ley with his back feet over his neck (in the act of running) and Mayor Edwards' rabbit in the lead. - The rabbit rab-bit is a very large specimen of the rodent family and well able to care for himself, as well as the dog who happens to be a combination bird, rabbit, coon and anything else that happens to be In sight. Well, it was not long before the same pair came back, but the rabbit was not in the lead. Rube, the dog, and the rabbit played for about twenty minutes up and down the alley, in the back yards, and seemed to be having a wonderful time, when all of a sudden the rabbit, firing of such amusement (please he-lleve he-lleve me), jumped and bit Dr. Jack Halton's dog under the neck, then, to do the job up right, kicked poor Major several times, thus ending the morning's exercise." |