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Show HARE3 ATTRACTED BY A BELL. New Jersey Rabbits Decoyed by Hearing Hear-ing Unusual Sound. P. J. Fnrrell nnd Jeroms Slgler, whom everybody In Montc!atr, N. J., knows, havo learned much recently about shooting labbtts, r-.ys an exchange. ex-change. Thoy went to Yc -rls county to hunt rabbits and tramped around Pino brook for two hours without ever seeing a cottontail. Hungry, cold and tired, theji. sought John Johnson's farmhouse for lunch. When they bewailed be-wailed their bad luck Johnson ridiculed ridi-culed them, saying: "Why I can got a dozen rabbits out of that ton-acre meadow over there." "Bet you a gallon of npplojack you can't," exclaimed Furrell nud Slgler together. N "Go you," said Johnaou. Ho got u long rope, tied n cowbell in the middle mid-dle of It, and called his hired man, Jim Uelden. Johnson took one end of tbo ro'pe, JlelUen the other, und while the cowbell jangled loudly they walked slowly across tho meadow. "Keep close behind t.ie bell," John-sun John-sun told Farroll nud Slgler. As If unable to resist its sound, rabbits rab-bits appearen out of the brush faster than over magician drew them from a hat. The buunlcs sat up and listened; list-ened; never dtd snake fnscinato them more. One would not movo out of Iktlden'B wny; ho kicked It aside. Farroll and Slgler wtro so astonished aston-ished they forgot to Bhoot ut tho first. Then they blazed away and got 13 out of tho It! rabbits that answered the call of the boll In those ten acres. |