The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-10
THESE RABBITS ARE SMART.
They 1--we In the Pociiuck Bailiwfck ana
Know the Game Law.

they 1--we In the Pocliuck Baiiiwfck ana
Know the Game Law.
CHESTER, Nov. e.-"Take the rabbit. now
aid the man from over Pochuck: Just
our common little cottontail rabbit, swift
as the wind. and timid a. 1t IL swift-how
smart Il is! How much 1t knowsl' 49,.
1T don't know a thing. the rabbit DON'T
exclaimed Charley Baldwin, Who Keeps
the hotel: II haipt got az many Drains
aAh!" said the Pochuck citizen. Per-
haps not. over here. Over here, 30 near
Goshen. Over here. where you don't
talk anything but hoes. You couldn't
expect a rabbit to know much with such
environment. He doesn't need TO-,
u take him over our wayl Take
him in that favored bailiwick where the
leisure waters OF the drowned lands lap
the granite bases OF the Poohuck hills,
and where the great boon Of contiguity
to New Jersey Is vouchsafed to all. m
you'll find him up to snufl He knows
n lot over there. He has TO. e Dc
lonesome II he didn't.
Where smartness Is In the air his lot
would be doleful IL he didn't get his share:
We're all smart. over in the shadow OF
come over and swap horses some day.
sBut as TO the rabbit being smart. You
don't believe IL. Then let me tell you
something. / live on a farm. Part OF
il il in York State. Part OF II is in Jersey.
The State line runs right through II.
-It's a great place for rabbits. All sum
mer long they came on 10 my premises
in regular droves. and | often had To set
tho dog on 'em TO chase 'em away. =,
But says l, wait until Sep, | comes,
Then ri have fun with you! just wait.
Because the season for shooting rabbits
in York State opens on Sept. 1, and IL there
is anything | like it is rabbit hunting and
rabbit potpie. The night before Sept; l
my stubble fields and brush lots were alive
with rabbits frisking about.
a'All right says |. IN see you to-
morrow" $1,000.
Tomorrow came. and | went out bright
and early with my gun To bag rabbits.
/ couldn't find one In the stubblc fields or
brush lots where they had been SO many
the night before. but by and by j located
the whole caboodle OF EN- In another part
OF the farm. and they seemed TO be having
a high old time among themselves.
You needn't get so gay says / You'll
taste just rs good in q potpie killed here
as you would II had killed you back yon-
der
Il got my gun ready 10 knock over n
particularly big and clipper rabbit, when
all Of a sudden it flashed on mo that this
part OF the farm was In Jersey. and that
The rabbit season did not open in Jersey
until Oct. !.
Now, I'm a law abiding citizen, and 40
] returned home disappointed, OF course,
but TO bide my time and watch until the
rabbits frisked back TO the brush lots and
stubble fields across the line again; ,.,,,
| frisked back across the line. They would
| hop. skip and jump. and feed and cavort
| up to within n foot OF so OF the state line,
day after day, but never a one OF en- crossed
il 80 | could get a shot and not break the
law. Those rabbits were so darn smart
| hat they made me mad.
Dum-dum, take you" ] hollered nj
last. shaking my gun al EN-; IN nave me
whole OF Pochuck here Oct l, armed ia
the teeth, and we'll sweep every blame
| rabbit Of you on the face Of this fair corner
Of the earth
The rabbits seemed 20 he gayer than
ever after that. and some 81 en- actually
| came up 20 the State line 40 close hat they
stood In Jersey and cropped clover IN Nork
State SO sent word 10 eyeryDodN Ia
come over TO my plac" on Oct. ! and slay
rabbits.
Il don't know how nan came, but there
was a bot of EN-, all with guns W" me
andered forth 10 nv Jer,ey fields, 10 whici
the rabbits had rrtreatrd IA Sepiember
but alt hough ve beat Tho nrIsh aud kicked
the siubble every inch ~ EN-, not a singh"
solitary rabbit showed up
NV fr.uds leered me u went home
swearing What had becom" ~ those
smart rabbits7 didn't know until n"h'
day and then | was glad | hadn't been ahl'
10 Kill any ~ them II SEEMED 10 ne tho"
a. 4 u would lave iScu pretty clure i'
mairlaugnt"r
Adjoining my farm II a plao" Owned
by n crank uu animals and thing ~
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land 10 hunt 80 fish and would 40 mut'
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