roads, aucl lay it opeu to liis nimble feet as the 

 sky lies open to the swallow's wings. 



But how niatldeuiug these I'oads are to the 

 dogs and foxes ! In the first ijlace, they have a 

 pectiliar way of beginning nowheie in ijaiticnlar, 

 and of vanishing all at once, in the same blind 



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" Calamity is liot on his traclt." 



fashion. I am not snre that I evei' found a satis- 

 factory end to a rabbit's road— that is, a nest, a 

 playground, or even a feeding-place. Old Ca- 

 lamity, the liound, is always toimented and 

 undone w^henever she runs foul of a rabbit 

 road. 



She will start Bunny in the open field, and trail 

 away aftei' him in full tongue iis fast as her fat 

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