Raggylug 

 The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit 



Raggylug, or Rag, was the name of a young 

 cottontail rabbit. It was given him from his 

 torn and ragged ear, a life-mark that he got 

 in his first adventure. He lived with his mother 

 in Olifant's swamp, where I made their acquaint- 

 ance and gathered, in a hundred different ways, 

 the little bits of proof and scraps of truth that at 

 length enabled me to write this history. 



Those who do not know the animals well 

 may think I have humanized them, but those 

 who have lived so near them as to know some- 

 what of their ways and their minds will not 

 think so. 



Truly rabbits have no speech as we under- 

 stand it, but they have away of conveying ideas 

 by a system of sounds, signs, scents, whisker- 



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