Suggestion for Beginners—A Rabbit Hunt 65 
Our surmises were correct; bunny came out of 
the corn and slipped along the edge of it on the 
farther side of the creek, but whether he saw us or 
decided on another plan I do not know. At all 
events, he went on down the creek bank, squatting 
in grass, for a moment, hut it was a brief moment, 
for the dogs came hounding out in the open and 
the rabbit was obliged to move. Charlie could stand 
it no longer. The rabbit was going down the edge 
of the creek when he let him have a shot and thus 
bowled him over. “I had to do it," he explained, 
apologetically. “The dogs have been running that 
one bunny nearly three quarters of an hour." He 
had not exaggerated in the least, but nevertheless, 
I should have enjoyed seeing a finish race and I 
verilv believe these two little hounds would have 
run this big buck rabbit to a kill. 
We had many more exciting races after that and 
the game hag was filled long before noon, for while 
Charlie is a field shooter, he is not entirely a meat 
hunter. We remained for the “hot victuals" at 
farmer Smith’s and then drove home in the hazy 
sunlight of a beautiful Indian Summer afternoon. 
Charlie's beagles were over size for field trials or 
show purposes; hut he never regretted buying them. 
They were as good as any I have ever seen for 
all-round working dogs. 
