142 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



Suddenly, down came a rabbit, jumping 

 high in the air, his huge ears flapping for- 

 ward and back, as if they had wilted in 

 the hot sun. 



Then another rabbit, then another! Then 

 ten, twenty, forty, fifty, five hundred, a 

 thousand, all jumping over each other and 

 upon each other, and against the nets, with 

 their long legs thrust through the meshes, 

 and wriggling and struggling till the nets 

 shook as in a gale. 



Then came the long lines of half-naked 

 brown boys tumbling down after them out 

 of the brush, and striking right and left, 

 up and down, with their clubs. 



In less than ten minutes from the time 

 they came out of the brush, the little fel- 

 lows had laid down their clubs and were 

 dragging the game together. 



The grave professors shook their hats 

 and handkerchiefs, and shouted with de- 

 light from their windows overhead, and all 

 the white boys danced about, wild with ex- 

 citement. 



