UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
this life of fear. I don’t know that the crow is ever 
preyed upon by any other creature, so he apparently 
has a pretty good time. He is social and noisy and 
in the picnicking mood all the day long. Hawks 
apparently are afraid of man only. Hence their lives 
must be comparatively free from harassing fear. 
Even fish in the streams are not exempt from fear. 
They are preyed upon by large fish, and by minks 
and otters, and by the fish hawk. If the weasel has a 
natural enemy, I don’t know what it is. He is the 
boldest of the bold. He might be captured by a 
hawk or an eagle, but such occurrences are probably 
very rare, as a weasel can dodge almost anything 
but a gun. 
Of all our wild creatures the rabbit has the most 
enemies; weasels, minks, foxes, wildcats, and owls 
are hovering about poor Bunnie at all times. No 
wonder she never closes her eyes, even in sleep. 
To compensate in a measure for all this, nature has 
made her very fleet of foot and very prolific, so that 
the race of rabbits is in full tide, notwithstanding 
its many enemies. 
Such animals as the skunk and the porcupine show 
little fear, because their natural enemies, if they 
have any, would go by on the other side. There is 
evidence that the skunk is sometimes preyed upon 
by the fox and the eagle and the horned owl, and the 
porcupine by the lynx and the wolf, but these must 
be exceptional occurrences. The lion probably fears 
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