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ears remain black. The flesh is dry, and I 

 have never eaten it unless I could get noth- 

 ing else. 



Jack-rabbits are not plentiful enough nor 

 valuable enough to warrant a man's making 

 a hunting trip solely for their sakes; and 

 the few that I have shot have been killed 

 with the rifle while out after other game. 

 They offer beautiful marks for target prac- 

 tice when they sit upon their haunches. But 

 though hardly worth powder they afford 

 excellent sport when coursed with grey- 

 hounds, being very fleet, and when closely 

 pressed able to double so quickly that the 

 dogs shoot by them. For reasons already 

 given, however, it is difficult to keep sport- 

 ing dogs on the plains, though doubtless in 

 the future coursing with greyhounds will 

 become a recognized Western sport. 



This finishes the account of the small 

 game of the northern cattle country. The 

 wild turkey is not found with us ; but it is 

 an abundant bird farther south, and eagerly 

 followed by the ranchmen in whose neigh- 



