Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . es were known bythe curious little race of pigmy people he met, who had never been visited bywhite men before. It is perfectly true that the rabbit is clever. One has onlyto watch it march from the woods some frosty morning. Out it comes with ahop, but never does its vigilance forsake it for an instant. You will noticethat it will always keep its path open back to cover along the thin, hard snow,so there is no danger of its slipping or losing its way, and yet it keeps tarenough away to prevent a lurking fox from springing upon it. There is one an
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . es were known bythe curious little race of pigmy people he met, who had never been visited bywhite men before. It is perfectly true that the rabbit is clever. One has onlyto watch it march from the woods some frosty morning. Out it comes with ahop, but never does its vigilance forsake it for an instant. You will noticethat it will always keep its path open back to cover along the thin, hard snow,so there is no danger of its slipping or losing its way, and yet it keeps tarenough away to prevent a lurking fox from springing upon it. There is one animal the rabbit is in constant terror of, and that is theweasel. Directly a rabbit knows that a weasel is upon its track, it gives a littlescream of terror and dashes off Now if the rabbit was to keep on running itwould soon leave the weasel far behind, but this it does not do. It runs backand forth in a state of panic and dives into the burrows, from which the otherbunnies drive it out. The weasel doggedly follows everywhere, until the rabbit. THE GUINEA-PIG. becomes paralyzed with fear and allows its enemy to catch up. It is acurious fact that when a weasel has singled out a rabbit to chase, it will nottouch the others, although it brushes quite close to them in the passagesof the burrows. Many people have wondered of what use to the rabbit is the little whitefur which has given rise to the name cotton-tail. The most likely reason forits existence is that at the sign of danger the parents dash off, and the whiteis a guide for the little ones. Everyone who has shot rabbits knows that itserves as a mark to aim at. THE GUINEA-PIG. Why the Guinea-pig should have been so called is a puzzle, for it is nota pig at all, nor does it come from Guinea, but from South America. It isvery brightly and irregularly col-ored, and very often has large dabsof orange, black, and white upon it. The guinea-pig breeds freely,but the young are very delicate forthe first few days after they are born.
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