. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . apple orchard,the picture ceases to be beautiful; his eye is ob-scured with the black whisperings of vengeance,and thinking only of the danger threatening hisnew trees, he reaches for his gun, and sallies forthinto the night with the intention of making a redmark just under the two black ears. Lepus transition-alls, a rabbit of the woods, is quiteas frequently a rabbit of the orchard ; and the amountof damage he is capable of doing there is in-calculable. He girdles the trees, gnawsthe lower twigs, and even climb
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . apple orchard,the picture ceases to be beautiful; his eye is ob-scured with the black whisperings of vengeance,and thinking only of the danger threatening hisnew trees, he reaches for his gun, and sallies forthinto the night with the intention of making a redmark just under the two black ears. Lepus transition-alls, a rabbit of the woods, is quiteas frequently a rabbit of the orchard ; and the amountof damage he is capable of doing there is in-calculable. He girdles the trees, gnawsthe lower twigs, and even climbsinto the environing shrubberyto reach the higher ones anddenude them of bark and#*. buds. But besides theapple-tree, he feeds on the Mollie Cottontail. 1L briers, sumachs, hazels,black birches, hickories, and shrubbery in generalwhich he finds on the roadside and in the garden. Hehas also other enemies than man, chief among whichare the fox, ermine, eagle, and great horned owl;besides these he is subject to attacks by the snowyowl, the larger hawks, the marten, and the
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