Little Warhorse 
rooted hatred of a Dog, and when they saw the 
Yellow Cur coming bounding toward them, 
their tails and noses went up; they sniffed an- 
grily, then closed up ranks, and led by the Cow 
that owned the Calf, they charged at the Dog, 
while Jack took refuge under a low thorn-bush. 
The Dog swerved aside to attack the Calf, at 
least the old Cow thought he did, and she fol- 
lowed him so fiercely that he barely escaped 
from that field with his life. 
It was a good old plan—one that doubtless 
came from the days when Buffalo and Coyote 
played the parts of Cow and Dog. Jack 
never forgot it, and more than once it saved 
his life. 
In color as well as in power he was a rarity. 
Animals are colored in one or other of two 
general plans: one that matches them with 
their surroundings and helps them to hide— 
this is called “protective”; the other that 
makes them very visible for several purposes— 
this is called “directive.” Jack-rabbits are 
peculiar in being painted both ways. As they 
squat in their form in the gray brush or clods, 
they are soft gray on their ears, head, back, and 
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