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another they range from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast 

 and from the southern border of Canada south through our 

 country on down through Central and South America to 

 A rgentina. They are not at all particular about the kind of 

 country they inhabit, being found in all sorts of localities 

 and in the different climes. 



The junior hunter, especially, delights to go out and 

 enjoy a rabbit chase with his favorite dog, be it hound, non- 

 descript, or Airedale terrier. Or, having no dog, he loves to 

 track the cottontail in the snow, which, while having the dis- 

 advantage of being somewhat tedious, is a very exhilarating 

 iorm of outdoor exercise and sport. I don't think, how- 

 ever, that the average junior is half so anxious for the exer- 

 cise as he is for the sport. 



The ideal hunting dog for this game is a foxhound trained 

 on rabbits, thus you get the speed necessary to bring the rab- 

 bit around to you (they nearly always run in a circle when 

 pursued by hounds) and within gunrange, and not only do 

 you get speed, but you get a dog with a head full of sense, up 

 to all the tricks, hereditarily, that the average foxhound 

 possesses. 



The Airedale terrier may be trained specially for this 

 work with more or less success, but for me, give me the .fox- 

 hound trained on this game, for best results. The beagle 

 hound is also a good rabbit dog. 



In habits, the rabbit family is mainly nocturnal, sleep- 

 ing by day and doing most of their traveling by night. This 

 characteristic makes it essential to have a good dog to hunt 

 them out of their retreats in thickets, tall grasses, and brush 

 in which they make "forms" wherein they sleep. 



"Br'er Rabbit," is one of our game animals that con- 

 stitutes almost an institution (in a sense), because of the 

 interest and place they have in our folklore and literature. 



Wherever shelter is absent in the form of a thin growth 

 of vegetation or wherever brushy bushes are lacking, the cot- 

 tontail usually occupy burrows in the ground. Sometimes 



