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hardly ever killed except to poison and 

 throw out as bait for the wolves. 



The other kind is the great jack rabbit. 

 This is a characteristic animal of the plains ; 

 quite as much so as the antelope or prairie 

 dog. It is not very abundant, but is 

 found everywhere over the open ground, 

 both on the prairie or those river bottoms 

 which are not wooded, and in the more 

 open valleys and along the gentle slopes of 

 the Bad Lands. Sometimes it keeps to the 

 patches of sage-brush, and in such cases 

 will lie close to the ground when ap- 

 proached ; but more often it is found in the 

 short grass where there is no cover at all 

 to speak of, and relies upon its speed for its 

 safety. It is a comical-looking beast with 

 its huge ears and long legs, and runs very 

 fast, with a curious lop-sided gait, as if it 

 was off its balance. After running a couple 

 of hundred yards it will generally stop and 

 sit up erect on its haunches to look round 

 and see if it is pursued. In winter it 

 turns snow-white except that the tips of the 



