Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
208
Animal Heroes
·
Ernest Thompson Seton
115
LITTLE
WARHORSE
The
History
of
a
Jack-rabbit
The
Little
Warhorse
knew
practically
all
the
Dogs
in
town.
First,
there
was
a
very
large
brown
Dog
that
had
pursued
him
many
times,
a
Dog
that
he
always
got
rid
of
by
slipping
through
a
hole
in
a
board
fence.
Second,
there
was
a
small
active
Dog
that
could
follow
through
that
hole,
and
him
he
baffled
by
leaping
a
twenty-foot
irrigation
ditch
that
had
steep
sides
and
a
swift
current.
The
Dog
could
not
make
this
leap.
It
was
"sure
medicine"
for
that
foe,
and
the
boys
still
call
the
place
"Old
Jacky's
Jump."
But
there
was
a
Greyhound
that
could
leap
better
than
the
Jack,
and
when
he
could
not
follow
through
a
fence,
he
jumped
over
it.
He
tried
the
Warhorse's
mettle
more
than
once,
and
Jacky
only
saved
himself
by
his
quick
dodging,
till
they
got
to
an
Osage
hedge,
and
here
the
Greyhound
had
to
give
it
up.
Besides
these,
there
was
in
town
a
rabble
of
big
and
little
Dogs
that
were
troublesome,
but
easily
left
behind
in
the
open.
In
the
country
there
was
a
Dog
at
each
farm-house,
but
only
one
that
the
Warhorse
really
feared;
that
was
a
long-legged,
fierce,
black
Dog,
a
brute
so
swift
and
pertinacious
that
he
had
several
times
forced
the
Warhorse
almost
to
the
last
extremity.
For
the
town
Cats
he
cared
little;
only
once
or
twice
had
he
been
threatened
by
them.
A
huge
Tom-cat
flushed
with
many
victories
came
crawling
up
to
where
he
fed
one
moonlight
night.
Jack
Warhorse
saw
the
black
creature
with
the
glowing
eyes,
and
a
moment
before
the
final
rush,
he
faced
it,
raised
up
on
his
haunches,--his
hind
legs,--at
full
length
on
his
toes,--with
his
broad
ears
towering
up
yet
six
inches
higher;
then
letting
out
a
loud
churrr-churrr,
his
best
attempt
at
a
roar,
he
sprang
five
feet
forward
and
landed
on
the
Cat's
head,
driving
in
his
sharp
hind
nails,
and
the
old
Tom
fled
in
terror
from
the
weird
two-legged
giant.
This
trick
he
had
tried
several
times
with
success,
but
twice
it
turned
out
a
sad
failure:
once,
when
the
Cat
proved
to
be
a
mother
whose
Kittens
were
near;
then
Jack
Warhorse
had
to
flee
for
his
life;
and
the
other
time
was
when
he
made
the
mistake
of
landing
hard
on
a
Skunk.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
