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He never let me get within two hundred yards, and he 

 wasted but little time in observation. He had now taken 

 me on a two-mile circuit and brought me back to the 

 starting point. So he had taught me this — a cunning 

 old jack-rabbit lived in the region around which I had 

 followed him, for they keep to their homeground. All 

 his ways of ruiming and observing, and of using barbed- 



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No. g. Where the Jack-rabbit's track was doubled 



wire fences, barnyards, and hedges, showed that he was 

 very clever; but the best proof of that was in the fact 

 that he could live and flourish on the edge of a town that 

 was swarming with dogs and traveled over daily by men 

 with guns. 



The next day I had another opportunity of going to the 

 jack-rabbit's home region, I did not gee himself; but 



