Jack Rabbit 



close in as they advance, driving the game before them, usually 

 into some kind of enclosure or corral from which there is no escape. 

 The number of rabbits taken in one day in this manner runs 

 from a few hundred up to ten or even twenty thousand. 



Driving jack rabbits, though on a much smaller scale than 

 just described, seems always to have been a favourite pastime 

 with most tribes of Western Indians. 



By far the most exhilarating and sportsman-like method 

 of hunting jack rabbits is coursing with greyhounds, in the same 

 manner that coursing has always been followed in the Old World; 

 jack rabbits are if anything swifter and more resourceful in dodg- 

 ing the hounds than are the European hares. 



The jack rabbits are started from their forms and go off like 

 the wind with the greyhounds in hot pursuit, while the rider 

 follows as closely as he can. The whole thing goes with a swing 

 and dash to the very end, the rabbit dodging, leaping and doubling 

 frantically, until either he has succeeded in reaching the brush 

 and safety, or the greyhound has seized him and both go rolling 

 over and ever together along the ground. 



Although the fur of the jack rabbit seems to be well enough 

 suited for felting it is not much used at present, while the skin 

 is too tender and the fur itself too brittle to make it of much value 

 as fur. The Western Indians, however, have always held jack 

 rabbit skins in high esteem for clothing. They twist the skin in 

 narrow strips which are fastened together to make robes, the 

 skins being twisted in such a way as to leave the fur on both 

 sides making a warm durable robe of exceeding lightness. 



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