The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-19
THE RABBIT AS A FIGHTER.
From the Washington Post.

The rabbit is more than an impetu-
Gus and desperate fighter. He is fire.
quently the most cunning of strategists.
One day he will precipitate frightful
onslaught, hurl himself like an ava
lanche at the doomed and bastard foe.
Again he will lure his victim to de-
struction by wiles so deep that Fabius
himself might well have thrilled with
envy at the spectacle. Furious in on
set as Sheridan or Stonewall Jackson,
cautious in maneuver as Beauregard
or Mcclellan, he is in either capacity
the most devastating warrior that
walks on legs.
Read this:
"Middletown, N. Y, Thursday.-Mil-
ton Reynolds, an Ontario and Western
fireman, living at Livingston Manor,
went hunting for rabbits with Frank
Pomer, an enginee driver Reynolds
holed a cottontail, and while proceed
ing to drive the animal out placed his
double barreled shotgun on the ground
a 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 off both
barrels.
THE shot struck Reynolds in the left
hand, leg and face, and tore one foot
off his dog. The rabbit escaped"
On many occasions in the past al
ways carefully combining ourselves to
Observation-Disclosures testimony and re-
jecting all witnesses not of unquestion-
able credit we have reproduced in these
columns stirring chronicles of rabbit
achievements in the line of outright,
rough and tumble, knock down, and
drag out fighting. Our readers have
not forgotten the hand-to-hand COM
bat 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. Every
Thompson's description of the battle
between the Michigan molly cotton
tail and the rattlesnake, when the
serpent was left a mangled wreck up
on 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 intellectual
rather than a brute force in deadly
conflict. We already know with what
terror his hurting attack is regarded
by experienced hunters in all parts
of the country. Very recently a
Maryland gentleman, known through
out the neighborhood as a fearless
and accomplished Nimrod, woke from
d lIOuDlCQ olcep anu SGILltS d uOuOlC-
barrelled shotgun, blew both his own
feet off, thinking they were rabbits
about to fail upon him. That shows
what big-game veterans think of rab-
bits. 1t is the same story from the
tangled forests of the Adrondacks to
the chaparral of Western Texas-a
story all men know. But here is a
new side to this astounding beast,
showing that his craft is as destruc-
tive as his ferocity. We commend it
to the prayerful contemplation of
hunters everywhere, especially the city
variety of the tribe.
You can meet the mountain lion and
efface him with a fence rail. You
can run an umbrella into a Jersey bear
and open it, and 10! the thing is done.
You can hire an Indian to hold the
antlered monarch of the wilderness
while you fill him full of lead But
when you meet a rabbit in a narrow
path, you want to offer him a cab
bage and plate of oatmeal, and then
gallop madly home while he is eating