WHITE-JACK AND COMPANIONS 



remainder being given to the poor people of 

 the district. 



As the winter advanced the weekly jack-rab- 

 bit hunts continued. One large jack left the 

 prairie where she was continually being chased 

 by the coyotes or the hunters with dogs. She 

 chose for her home a near-by farmyard with a 

 small plum-thicket that had imprisoned a large 

 number of tumble-weeds carried thither by the 

 wind. Under this she would squat in com- 

 parative safety. There was another and chief 

 attraction on account of which the rabbit se- 

 lected this particular place for her home. The 

 only dog on the farm was an old shepherd dog 

 that cared nothing for the sport of chasing rab- 

 bits. 



In winter, in the northern part of their range, 

 the jack-rabbits' fur turns a pure white, but in 

 the southern portion, where I knew them, there 

 is seldom any noticeable change in color the 

 year round. The jack-rabbit that took up her 

 home beneath the plum-thicket, was an excep- 

 tion to the rule. Her coat was plentifully 

 sprinkled with white hairs, from the middle of 

 November until the first of April when most 

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