building called the " Moorish Maze," over whose 

 entrance is this invitation : 



COME IN AND GET LOST ! 



This is what one reads at the cross-roads in 

 rabbit-land. There are finger-boards and mile- 

 stones along the way ; but they point nowhere 

 and mark no distances except to the rabbits. 



An animal's strong points usually supplement 

 each other ; its well-developed powers are in line 

 with its needs and mode of life. So, by the very 

 demands of his peculiar life, the beaver has be- 

 come chief among all the animal engineers, his 

 specialty being dams. He can make a good slide 

 for logging, but of the construction of speedways 

 he knows absolutely nothing. The rabbit, on 

 the other hand, is a runner. He can swim if he 

 is obliged to. His interests, however, lie mostly 

 in his heels, and hence in his highways. So 

 Bunny has become an expert road-maker. He 

 cannot build a house, nor dig even a respectable 

 den ; he is unable to climb, and his face is too 

 flat for hole-gnawing: but turn him loose in a 

 brambly, briery wilderness, and he will soon 

 thread the trackless waste with a network of 

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