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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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IV
Next
summer
was
a
wonderful
year
for
the
Jack-rabbits.
A
foolish
law
had
set
a
bounty
on
Hawks
and
Owls
and
had
caused
a
general
massacre
of
these
feathered
policemen.
Consequently
the
Rabbits
had
multiplied
in
such
numbers
that
they
now
were
threatening
to
devastate
the
country.
The
farmers,
who
were
the
sufferers
from
the
bounty
law,
as
well
as
the
makers
of
it,
decided
on
a
great
Rabbit
drive.
All
the
county
was
invited
to
come,
on
a
given
morning,
to
the
main
road
north
of
the
county,
with
the
intention
of
sweeping
the
whole
region
up-wind
and
at
length
driving
the
Rabbits
into
a
huge
corral
of
close
wire
netting.
Dogs
were
barred
as
unmanageable,
and
guns
as
dangerous
in
a
crowd;
but
every
man
and
boy
carried
a
couple
of
long
sticks
and
a
bag
full
of
stones.
Women
came
on
horseback
and
in
buggies;
many
carried
rattles
or
horns
and
tins
to
make
a
noise.
A
number
of
the
buggies
trailed
a
string
of
old
cans
or
tied
laths
to
scrape
on
the
wheel-spokes,
and
thus
add
no
little
to
the
deafening
clatter
of
the
drive.
As
Rabbits
have
marvellously
sensitive
hearing,
a
noise
that
is
distracting
to
mankind,
is
likely
to
prove
bewildering
to
them.
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