The Washington times., 1920-08-03


often they die of fright.
Excepting rats and mice no animals breed in such
prodigous numbers rabbits all the rabbits that
born could and reproduce their kind they would soon
the earth the seventeen locust occasionally
the fields Every blade of grass and thing
within reach would disappear The human race also might
disappear starved death by the appees and numbers OF
rabbits And the last this planet far men
concerned would be barren earth covered with endless
billions Of dead rabbits and some dead men.
Fortunately for men, the rabbit is killed BY HIS OWN
LACK OF COURAGE.
Sometimes he actually dies of fright before the teeth OF
the enemy have touched him.
Often with piteous scream the rabbit rolls on its
side lies there unhurt but helpless frightened that 1t
will not use it's speed to escape death.
In Australia and in New Zealand the rabbits multiplied
by hundreds of millions They became actual menace to
farming and all prosperity in those countries because there
the animals that the rabbit fears and that destroy it
of the rabbit helpful to its enemies and
destructive ITSELF there is lesson for all human be-
ngs For principal enemy not the thing that really
rather the thing that fear and that except
our fear in many would have real existence
young Englshwoman, Frances Pitt famous student
of animal e describes what happens in the rabbit burrow
when its dreaded enemy the stoa weasel appears
Part of Miss Pitts description, reprinted in Current
Opinion, will interest you
The the stoa panic snss the rabbits in their
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s :I % They they sit hop up ss 'ss" % 1 Ss"4 but
Thi. looking hack fatal to them or to one of them
In the rabbits and fate learn that courage is
essential in everything and in the hunting habits of the
weasel there is another lesson which is to make
minds what intend to do then STAY at that until
succeed.
If the rabbit bigger than the weasel would stand up
and fight its teeth and strong legs it would
suade the weasel to go and hunt something else But the
rabbit coward the weasel is not It will seize by the
throat hare times its weight Here is the lesson that
the stoat teaches in her hunting methods:
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then could hardly stagger off home
AS is usual with human beings, the rabbit is foolish in
its cowardce as well choice of things that will fear
Some of humans fear ghosts whereas the only thing
that ought to fear is lack of industry and per
sistent effort Others of afraid of distant old age
whereas need not fear in the least if would work
properly in the time that is here
rabbit dies of fear before it is bitten by the weasel
tiny creature against which it might defend itself. The
same rabbit almost lacking in fear where
cerned although the c because Of its size and power
enemy that the rabbit could not fight successfully.
With cat stealing upon it, the rabbit will go calmly
feeding, not afraid
Each of u.s. if he studies himself carefully will find that
there something very dangerous, which is HIS weasel
and that he fooshy and that there is something very
dangerous that he disregards.
Not long ago there great many men that
thought as little of danger the whiskey bottle the rab
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bers it is probable that many have been killed by
whislev as rabbits nv cats