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ammunition wasted on them. They are hunted in various 

 ways in the West. One method is to run them out of cov- 

 ert with slow-hounds, and shoot them as they flee past a 

 stand ; another is to course them with greyhounds, but this 

 affords little sport except with the mule rabbit; and the 

 next is to trap or snare them. The latter is the favorite 

 means of capturing them with market hunters and Indians, 

 for by it thousands are caught in a day sometimes. 



The grand drives of the Piute Indians of Nevada have 

 often yielded them from three to ten thousand heads in a 

 week ; and had their traps and nets been more perfect they 

 could have probably doubled the number. I have shot 

 twenty in a day on the sage plains of Idaho, without walk- 

 ing two miles, and I could have shot many more if I wish- 

 ed to. Hares, or rabbits, as they are called, are in fact so 

 abundant that they are nuisances in some places, so that 

 the sportsman need have no compunctious of conscience 

 about killing them. 



