The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-06-29

rabbits. and IL was a sight worth 30
ing miles 10 see II IL had been some
body else than pa that was holding the
center OF the stage and all the crowd |
laughing az pa. and yelling ~ him tc /
stand his ground.
Wei. pa swung his ak handle anc |
killed an occasional rabbit. but there !
were thousands all around. and pa
seemed 10 be wading up 70 his middle |
in rabbits. ana they would jump all
over MIN. and bunt him with their
heads, and scratch him with their toe
nails, and the dogs would grab rabbits
and shake them, and pa would fall
down and rabbits would run over him
till you couldn't see pa at all. Then
he would raise up again and maui the
animals with his club. and his clothes
were 50 covered with rabbit hair that
he looked like a big rabbit himself
I He lost his hat and looked as though
I he was getting exhausted. and then he
stopped and spit on his hands and
dismounted and we're lined up at the
edge OF the corral, and said: You
condemned loafers, why don't you
come in here and help US dogs kill of
these vermin, cause | don't want 70
have all the fun. Come on in, the wa
ter is fine" and pa laughed as though
he was in swimming and wanted the
rest Of the gang TO come in.
The crowd thought they had given
the distinguished stranger his inning,
and so they all rushed in with clubs
and began to Kill rabbits and drive
them away from pa. In an hour or
50 the most OF them were killed. and
pa was 80 tired he went and sat down
on the ground to rest, and / got down
OF my perch and went to pa and asked
him what he thought OF this latest ex'
perience. and | began To pick rabbit
hairs OF pas clothes.
"I'll tell you what 1t is. Hennery,'
said pa, as he breathed hard. as Though
he had been running a foot race, this
rabbit drive reminds me OF the wa!
the rich corporations look upon th
poor people, just as we look upon tn
ldGhTdDUlls. We pAAy 'AhbAe 1"NeN
rabbit. and he runs when he sees us
and seems TO say: Please. mister, lie
me alone, and let me nibble aroun
and eat the stuff you do not want. an
we drive them into bunch, the wa
the rich and mean iron-handed trust
drive the people, and then We turn 1
and club them with the AK handle 9
graft and greed, and we keep our pow
er over them, IL enough are killed o
50 we are in the majority but tn
jackrabblts that escape the drive kee
on breeding. like the poor people thi
the trusts try TO exterminate Som
day the jackrabbit and the poor peopl
will get nerve enough 70 fight bacl
and then the jackrabbit and the poe
people will outnumber the men wh
~ fight them and kill them, and they wi
ie turn on the cowboys with the club
IL and the trusts with the big head, an
o drive those who now pursue them In
= corrals on the prairies and into pen
10 tentiaries In the states and those wi
III are pig-headed and cruel will &
theirs, see?"
10 | told pa | thought | could sc
ey though there were rabbit hairs in n
sh eyes, and then got pa to get up al
ey mount his horse, and we rode back
Oh, town with the gang, while the so
40 rabbit carcasses were hauled to TOW
ne in wagons and loaded on the cars.
no Where do you send those jackrs
Ie- bits?" asked pa OF the leader of t
I'M slayers, as he watched them loadi
the rabbits
'n ITO the Chicago packing houses
said the man. They make the fn'
pa canned chicken you ever ct"
ne The devil. you say" said pa. "Th
Us we have been working all day to me-
packing houses rich. Wouldn't Il
skin your"
Then we went to the hotel and | 7
courtplaster on pa where the rabbi
had scratched the skin OF and pa
ranged to go out next day to the rar
where the herd of buffaloes live,
look for bigger game for the she
though he would like 10 have a rab
drive in the circus ring next year
he could train the rabbits.