WHITE-JACK AND HER 

 COMPANIONS 



IT was the first meeting of the Jack-Rabbit 

 Hunting Club. The district school-teacher 

 who had organized it was the first to arrive. 

 She was a typical western girl, twenty years of 

 age, full of life and love of nature. Her chief 

 thought next to her school was to bring the 

 people of the district to a higher and closer 

 social standing and to teach them to love the 

 beautiful things of life just as she did. 



When the prairie was turned into cultivated 

 fields the jack-rabbits, attracted by the farmer's 

 crops, were drawn from their natural haunts and 

 food. In localities where they gathered in suffi- 

 cient numbers they did immense damage each 

 year to the timber, grain and corn. The young 

 trees on many a timber claim were killed by the 

 " prairie mules," as the rabbits were sometimes 



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