Little Warhorse 
otes rose to this and developed the trick of the 
relay chase. In this one Coyote takes one field, 
another the next, and if the Rabbit attempts 
the “ hedge-ruse ” they work from each side and 
usually win their prey. The Rabbit remedy 
for this, is keen eyes to see the second Coyote, 
avoidance of that field, then good legs to dis- 
tance the first enemy. 
Thus the Jack-rabbits, after being succes- 
sively numerous, scarce, in myriads, and rare, 
were now again on the increase, and those 
which survived, selected by a hundred hard 
trials, were enabled to flourish where their 
ancestors could not have outlived a single 
season. 
Their favorite grounds were, not the broad 
open stretches of the big ranches, but the 
complicated, much-fenced fields of the farms, 
where these were so small and close as to be 
like a big straggling village. 
One of these vegetable villages had sprung 
up around the railway station of Newchusen. 
The country a mile away was well supplied 
with Jack-rabbits of the new and selected 
stock, Among them was a little lady Rabbit 
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