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gether. There was only one conclusion: this 
was the mating season. This was a pair of 
Jack-rabbits—the Little Warhorse and his mate. 
LV; 
Next summer was a wonderful year for the 
Jack-rabbits. A foolish law had set a bounty 
on Hawks and Owls and had caused a general 
massacre of these feathered policemen. Con- 
sequently the Rabbits had multiplied in such 
numbers that they now were threatening to 
devastate the country. 
The farmers, who were the sufferers from the 
bounty law, as well as the makers of it, decided 
ona great Rabbit drive. All the county was in- 
vited to come, on a given morning, to the main 
road north of the county, with the intention of 
sweeping the whole region up-wind and at 
length driving the Rabbits into a huge corral 
of close wire netting. Dogs were barred as 
unmanageable, and guns as dangerous in a 
crowd; but every man and boy carried a 
couple of long sticks and a bag full of stones. 
Women came on horseback and in buggies; 
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