Chapter VIII 
THE JACK RABBIT: A LongTared Jumper 
“Today,” said Uncle Ely, “I am going to introduce 
you two eastern children to a famous westerner. At 
least I shall try to. He may be hard to find, but pen 
haps not.” 
The country about them was called a desert, but 
it was not barren as true deserts are. It had many 
mesquite, ironwood, and palo verde trees, cactus 
plants, and wild flowers adding their splashes of green 
and dots of reds and yellows to the landscape. The 
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