fi 



"Bunny, meantime, is watching just inside the next brier-patch." 



of such a move. When pressed by hunger or 

 hounded hard, they often take to a rail-pile, and 

 sometimes they grow so bold as to seek hiding 

 under a barn or house. One young buck lived 

 all winter in the wood-pile of one of my neigh- 

 bors, becoming so tame that he fed with the 

 chickens. 



The nearest approach that a rabbit makes to 

 a house is his "squat," or form. This is simply a 

 sitting-place in the fields or along the woods, that 

 he will change every time he is thoroughly fright- 

 ened out of it. Undisturbed he will stay in this 

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