Jack Rabbit 
close in as they advance, driving the game before them, usually 
into some kind of enclosure or corral from which there is no escape. 
The number of rabbits taken in one day in this manner runs 
from a few hundred up to ten or even twenty thousand. 
Driving jack rabbits, though on a much smaller scale than 
just described, seems always to have been a favourite pastime 
with most tribes of Western Indians. 
By far the most exhilarating and sportsman-like method 
of hunting jack rabbits is coursing with greyhounds, in the same 
manner that coursing has always been followed in the Old World; 
jack rabbits are if anything swifter and more resourceful in dodg- 
ing the hounds than are the European hares. 
The jack rabbits are started from their forms and go off like 
the wind with the greyhounds in hot pursuit, while the rider 
follows as closely as he can. The whole thing goes with a swing 
and dash to the very end, the rabbit dodging, leaping and doubling 
frantically, until either he has succeeded in reaching the brush 
and safety, or the greyhound has seized him and both go rolling 
over and cver together along the ground. 
Although the fur of the jack rabbit seems to be well enough 
suited for felting it is not much used at present, while the skin 
is too tender and the fur itself too brittle to make it of much value 
as fur. The Western Indians, however, have always held jack 
rabbit skins in high esteem for clothing. They twist the skin in 
narrow strips which are fastened together to make robes, the 
skins being twisted in such a way as to leave the fur on both 
sides making a warm durable robe of exceeding lightness. 
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