The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-19
THE RABBIT AS A FIGHTER.

The rabbit is more than an impetuous
and desperate fighter. He is frequently
the most cunning OF strategists. One day
he will precipitate a frightful onslaught,
hurl himself ND like a navaianche at the
doomed and bastard foe. Again he will
lure his victim TO destruction by wiles so
deep that Fabius himself might we'll have
thrilled with envy at the spectacle. Furi-
Gus in onset as Sheridan or Stoneweil
Jackson. cautious in rnanoeuvre as Beau
ergar dor Mcclellan, he is I'm either capac-
ity the most devouting warrior that walks
oil negs.
Read this:
"Middletown. y. Y, Thursday-.Milto
Reynolds, an Ontario and Western fire
man, living at Livingston Manor, went
hunting for rabbits with Frank Pomer.
an engine driver. Reynolds hcled cot
tentail. and while preceding to drive the
animal out placed his doubie-barrelled
shotgun on the ground q short distance
from the hole. The rabbit soon appeared.
and making straight for the gun, stepped
on the trigger in such way as TO set of
both barrels.
The shot struck Reynolds in the left
hand. leg and face. and tore one foot off
his deg. The rabbit escaped"
On many occasions in the past always
carefully combining ourselves to we'll
authenticated testimony and rejecting all
witnesses not of unques tionable credit,
We have reproduced in these columns
stirring chronicles Of rabbit achievements
in the lire of outright, rough and tumble
knock down. ana drag out fighting Our
readers have not forgotten the hand-to-
hand combat between the jackrabbit and
the bulldog at Medicine Lodge, Kan, on
which occasion the bulldog was torn TO
shreds and left dead in eighteen separate
and distinct places. Everybody has read
Mr.. Ernest Seton Thompsou's description
OF the battle between the Michigan molly
cottontail and lie rattlesnake, when the
serpent was left mangled upon the
ground. But why recapitulate the long
and CORY history at this time? We are
now considering the New York rabbit as
a deep, dark. willy strategist-as an in
teilectual rather than brute force in
deadly conflict. We already know with
what hurting attack is regarded by ex-
perienced hunters in all parts of the coun-
try. Very recently a Maryland gentleman
known throughout the neighborhood as a
fearless and accomplished Nimrod. woke
from troubled sleep and Selling a dou-
ble-barred shotgun, blew both his own
feet OF. thinking they were rabbits about
to fall upon him. That shows what big
game veterans think of rabbits. It is the
same story. from the tangled forests Of
the Adirondacks to the chaparraI of west
ern Texas-a story all men know. But
here is a new side 10 this astounding
beast, showing that his craft is as de-
structive as his ferocity. We commend
to the prayerful contemplation OF hunt
ers everywhere. especially the city vari-
ETY. of the tribe.
You can meet the mountain lion and ef-
face him with fence rail. You can run
an umbrella into q Jersey bear and open
IL. and 10, the thing is done. You can
hire an Indian 10 hold the antiered mon
arch of the wilderness whine you fiji him
full Of lead. But when you meet a rab-
bit in a narrow path you want 70 offer
him eabbabe and a plate OF oatmeal.
and then ssnop nadIy home while he is
eating it.-Washington Post