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shot a rabbit through a hole we had not found. 

 We quickly set a pouch over the hole and again 

 waited, for we could hear the noise. We did not 

 wait long when a rabbit landed in a pouch, and 

 while pard took him out, out shot another rabbit 

 through a hole that we had not seen. We could 

 not get at the hole to set a pouch so we had to let 

 it go. We waited a little while longer and the 



AN EASTERN WHITE FERRET. 



ferret came out and crawled into his box and we 

 started off again. 



We went a mile this time before we located 

 another of 22 holes. We found blood in several 

 places, human tracks, and decided that there had 

 been hunters there with ferrets before us, so we 

 took the opposite direction so we would not be 

 "stung" again. This time we came to a den of 



