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Show Rabbit Developed a New Nail. About forty-llvo yenrs ago throe pairs of enterprising rabbits woro Introduced In-troduced Into Australia. Today tho Increaso of these six Immigrants may ho counted by millions. They becamo a pest to tho country. Fortunes havo been Bpcnt to extormlnato thorn, Wlra fences many foot high nnd thousands of miles long havo boon built to keep out tho Invaders. Tho rabbits had to light nwful odds to llvo. but they havo now outwitted man They lmvo dovuloped n now nail -a long nail by which they can retain tholr hold on tho fence whllo climbing, With this samo nail they can burrow bIx or olght Inches undor tho netting and thus enter tho Holds that mean food and life to them. They nro now laughing at man Hesorvo powor has vitalized for theso rabbits latent possibilities, because they did not tamoly accept tholr condition, but In tholr strugglo to llvo learned how to live. Anlmnls' Friend |