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run loose in the rabbit house. The door of the 

 house was left open, one day, and my buck 

 goes out and gets under the wood stack which 

 joins the rabbit house, where I kept on trying 

 to catch it, but without success. It had been 

 out for six or seven weeks, and as it had been 

 continually hunted, got very wild ; so, on this 

 very day, I set about moving the wood stack, 

 in order to get at it, when it ran across the 

 road into the mill field fallow, and squatted 

 down." 



" I said: — 'Call in the dog, don't let him go 

 after the rabbit, as I can get it now. I'll just 

 shoot it, so mark the place where it squatted, 

 while I go and fetch my gun.' Well, I did so, 

 and shot it, and here's the rabbit to prove it." 

 With that he pulls a large sandy rabbit out of 

 his pocket. " And here," he went on. " Are 

 two — no, three witnesses who saw me shoot it." 

 Harry was as good as his word, and had no 

 difficulty in proving that he had really shot the 

 rabbit; so he had, but it was undoubtedly after 

 he had shot the hare. 



Old Dick swore to the hare, and I have no 



