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joyed. All these things go to make up a pleasant hour. After 
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the meal was over, Dad filled his pipe, and while he courted 
My Lady Nicotine,” w T e placed the things in order and put 
more wood on the lire. 
After our lunch and rest w T e donned our hunting coats, 
a few more shells in our pockets, and started out for 
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the afternoon victims, if any should show themselves. This 
time we went out farther than in the morning. As we were 
traversing a gully bordered by trees, and very rocky, a rabbit 
jumped up from behind a huge boulder which Dad had passed 
by. I blazed away, and missed, having overshot him by four 
feet. Dad and Bud fired simultaneously, and the rabbit took 
two summersaults and lay still. I ran forward and was about 
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to pick him up when the little demon jumped up and bolted 
like a shot out 
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of a cannon. Bunny no doubt had been stunned 
for a moment, but it was evident that he had not been hit in 
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the vital spot. We then continued down the valley and chased 
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up two more rabbits, one of which was stopped by a shot from 
Dad s gun - 
The scenery about us was most striking; the trees were 
all bare of leaves, while the white mantle sent from heaven and 
the sky, of a leaden cast, was still sending down the frozen 
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