The San Francisco call., 1901-11-17

~HAT is a funny name for a big,
J long-eared jack rabbit; but 1 was
not so big, nor so long-eared when
the name was given to me. man
picked me UP in the grass and
gave me to a little girl for a pet, and
that is how I came to be named Fuzzy
Fluff The first thing I remember L
opened my eyes and found myself
doubled up in a little bed under a bunch
of weeds. It was not much of bed.
Jack rabbits do not have as nice beds as
cotton tails do. Close beside me were two
other very small rabbits. They were my
brother and sister. I noticed they were
Of a dark gray color and had a dainty
white lire along the edge of each ear and
a black line above it. Such large, long,
thin ears, too. that lay fiat on their
shoulders, nearly covering their backs.
They had cunning short tails with a broad,
black stripe on top of them. They had
big. round. innocent dark eyes. and right
on top of each ones head was a longish
white spot AS my brother and sister
were as much alike as two peas, and each
one said that 1 looked just like the other
one. 1 think we must have been all alike.
BY and by ceased to look at my brother
and sister and looked out into the world.
It was a great, fat, wide. beautiful world.
and the wild poppies were in bloom; 1
could see, too. the high mountains all
white with snow.
Our mother came in and fed us her
milk. and one day she said we were big
enough to learn to hop, and to stand
straight up on our launches, and throw
Dur long ears forward and look scared the
way our mother did. We were afraid of
most everything we saw, so it was easy
TO DO. One morning she went away and
did not come back; we were hungry and
wondered why she staid so long An
other old rabbit who was a neighbor Of
ours came by US in the afternoon; she
was frightened nearly to death. She
looked at US as she passed, and We heard
her say: Poor little thingsi Their mother
got into the rabbit drive"
We did not know what she meant, but
Il it were anything about rabbits, we
thought we wanted to be in it too. We
grew hungrier and hungrier, and the next
morning hoped out of our bed and went
each his way to try to find something to
eat. It was February day and the sun
shone, but it had rained in the night and
the ground was wet and the air was
chilly. I am sure there never was little
rabbit as hungry as I was. The grass
was higher than my back, but had not
yet learned to eat grass, and I was soon
lost in it. I went on and on, and then
was in large vineyard. 1 saw some Chi
namen pruning the grapevines, and a tall
white man was walking around looking
I was afraid. I did not know why was
afraid Of him, but I knew 1 was afraid,
and I crouched down in furrow and
thought was hid. He picked me up and
put me IN his pocket 1 did not like the
motion OF his walking. And, oh, was
so hungry! But it was warm, and If it
had not been for the pipe in his pocket
I would have gone TO sleep. He gave me
TO little girl who came running to meet
him. She danced around and around with
me and laughed. and said to the man:
''Oh, Uncle Charlie. what a cunning,
cute, fuzzy little thing IT is" She held
me I'D against her throat and talked baby
talk to me- She said: 90, de daciei y.
de daciel pittie little sing" Her hair was
long and like gold and fell over her
shoulders. I nestled to her throat and
crept under her hair nearly to the back
OF her neck She had her hands over me
all the time so could not fall. She kept
cooing over me and calling me pretty
names, but she did not like me on the
back Of her neck So she pulled me out
from under her pretty. gold hair and cud-
died me under her chin again. I began to
lick her throat. She laughed and cried
out:
"clevel This rabbit is little kitty, and
# thinks I am cream"
Then I saw there was a boy coming
toward us, and he called the little girl
Morris" which was. I think, quite as
odd a name for little girl as Fuzzy
Fluff is for q Jack rabbit. The boy was
a pretty little lad, but there was a big
dog with him. and was afraid The dog
shifted the air and made leap to catch
me- I thought he had me sure. The little
girl screamed, and the little boy yelled:
Get out, Doc; get out! You rascal.
your And he caught the dog by the
long hair on his neck and turned him
a somerset" I wanted to laugh, but
was afraid he would come after me again
The children took me to the house and
fed me warm milk: they fed II to me
with little silver spoon. In a few
days they sat me down on the floor by a
saucer Of milk and stuck my nose In it.
After that when they fed me I always
sat on the floor and Tapped it out of a
saucer. I learned from their talk that
the little boy was the son of the people
who owned the vineyard and the little
girl was his cousin who had come from
a city a long way off to visit him; and
that belonged to the little girl, and she
was going to take me with her when
she went home. When was older they
gave me a blade of grass to eat and
called sll the family to see me nibble it.
was fond of the children and not