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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Thus
the
Jack-rabbits,
after
being
successively
numerous,
scarce,
in
myriads,
and
rare,
were
now
again
on
the
increase,
and
those
which
survived,
selected
by
a
hundred
hard
trials,
were
enabled
to
flourish
where
their
ancestors
could
not
have
outlived
a
single
season.
Their
favorite
grounds
were,
not
the
broad
open
stretches
of
the
big
ranches,
but
the
complicated,
much-fenced
fields
of
the
farms,
where
these
were
so
small
and
close
as
to
be
like
a
big
straggling
village.
One
of
these
vegetable
villages
had
sprung
up
around
the
railway
station
of
Newchusen.
The
country
a
mile
away
was
well
supplied
with
Jack-rabbits
of
the
new
and
selected
stock.
Among
them
was
a
little
lady
Rabbit
called
"Bright-eyes,"
from
her
leading
characteristic
as
she
sat
gray
in
the
gray
brush.
She
was
a
good
runner,
but
was
especially
successful
with
the
fence-play
that
baffled
the
Coyotes.
She
made
her
nest
out
in
an
open
pasture,
an
untouched
tract
of
the
ancient
prairie.
Here
her
brood
were
born
and
raised.
One
like
herself
was
bright-eyed,
in
coat
of
silver-gray,
and
partly
gifted
with
her
ready
wits,
but
in
the
other,
there
appeared
a
rare
combination
of
his
mother's
gifts
with
the
best
that
was
in
the
best
strain
of
the
new
Jack-rabbits
of
the
plains.
This
was
the
one
whose
adventures
we
have
been
following,
the
one
that
later
on
the
turf
won
the
name
of
Little
Warhorse
and
that
afterward
achieved
a
world-wide
fame.
Ancient
tricks
of
his
kind
he
revived
and
put
to
new
uses,
and
ancient
enemies
he
learned
to
fight
with
new-found
tricks.
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