Some Curious Notes from My Diary 



hole of her " stop " unclosed long before her young 

 ones had their eyes open. 



If you were to ask one thousand men in any town, 

 or part of the country for that matter, where rabbits 

 spend the day nine hundred and ninety-nine of them 

 would answer : "In burrows or holes in rocks, of 

 course," unconscious of the fact that some rabbits never 

 go near a hole of any sort or kind unless forced there by 

 a dangerous enemy. Many rabbits that live in woods 

 sit out all day long wet or fine, and keepers profess an 

 ability to distinguish them from burrow dwellers by 

 the darker tint of the fur along their backs. 



At certain seasons of the year burrow dwellers will 

 make a nice cosy " seat " in some rough tussock of 

 grass, and if left undisturbed spend the whole day in it. 

 I have watched rabbits go to their " seats " in the early 

 hours of the morning on many occasions, but did not 

 know until quite recently that they will sometimes do 

 so, even in the late afternoon. 



Crossing a hill after a heavy shower of snow that 

 had fallen between two and three o'clock one day I 

 noticed that a rabbit had left a wood immediately on 

 my right, and hopped quite leisurely, as the character 

 of its footprints indicated, out into the rough grass field 

 through which I was passing. Expecting to discover 

 its returning tracks a little farther down I walked on, 

 but was disappointed. Returning to the point at which 

 the animal had emerged from the wood I followed its 

 footmarks until I came upon it squatting in a nice cosy 

 " seat " under a bush. There were plenty of good 



