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The Marsh Rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) : 



This species is a close relation to the cottontail, but is 

 more heavily proportioned, has smaller ears, shorter and 

 more slender legs and feet, and shorter tail. The marsh 

 rabbit and swamp rabbits have aquatic habits, and both live 

 mainly in swamps, marshes, and along streams. 



The swamp rabbit is a larger relative of the marsh rab- 

 bit and they are very numerous in certain wooded coastal 

 regions of the South. 



SQUIRREL SHOOTING: 



Sportsmen have found this is an art that requires lots 

 of vigilance, stealthy movement (where movement is re- 

 quired), and a super-abundance of patience. 



To become a crack squirrel hunter, one must haunt the 

 wooded places a great deal, become fully acquainted with 

 and accustomed to the ways of the forest people; he must 

 learn to walk easily on the dry leaves; learn to stalk your 

 game, even as the great carnivores stalk their prey ; in short 

 you must become a thoroughly trained woodsman. 



Woodcraft is a most entertaining and interesting sub- 

 ject an entire book could not hope to cover the theme ade- 

 quately and it is a craft that the successful hunter ac- 

 quires early in his career. Without the knowledge of wood- 

 craft the huntsman confronts failure. We can think of no 

 better way of acquiring this art than by friction contact 

 with nature. Go into the great forest, study, observe. Our 

 forebears were masters at the art. Why? Because a liv- 

 lihood depended upon their efforts to secure game for food. 

 But now, necessity no longer urges us to become acquainted 

 with nature's storehouse, and it makes us none the better 

 woodsmen. We are too prone nowadays, it seems, to take 

 other people's advice follow other men's directions in- 



