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”The rabbits had felled him. They were swarming around and upon him.”
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The Dreadful Rabbits
By GANS T. FIELD
One hardly thinks of rabbits as murderous wild beasts, and yet—
The author of “The Witch’s Cat” and “Fearful
Rock” has a theory.
“. . . there are a hundred things one has to know, which we understand and you don’t, as yet. I mean passwords, and signs, and sayings which have power and effect, and plants you carry in your pocket, and verses you repeat, and dodges and tricks you practise; all simple enough when you know them, but they’ve got to be known. . . .”
—Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
AT A POINT about four miles out of Crispinville, a lean-looking rabbit, with black-and-white smudgings on the gray of his ears and long hind legs, came flopping out on the pavement and paused in full way of the car. Morgan Pitts put on the brakes, drew out a handkerchief and mopped the summer