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Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e between a Rabbit and a Hare ? Dontthey belong to the same family ? asked Nat. Perhaps they work in different guilds, venturedRap. No, said the Doctor, they all belong to the long-eared, short-tailed gnawers, with the patent-jumpinghind legs. The difference is, beside size, that littleHares are born in grassy nests with fur on and theireyes open; while little Rabbits are naked and blind andare born in burrows. All our species are Hares. TheRabbits that House People keep sometimes as pets,are true Rabbits, children of European parents, andnot American fourfoots, though we still continue tocall our Hares, Rabbits, the same as we call Bisons,Buffaloes. See, there goes a common Rabbit now ! cried Rap. How he bobs along and then stops and sits up ; dostop a second, Rod. Hes looking at something by thattree and doesnt hear our wheels, because of the snow ! What queer tracks he makes, said Nat. Ithought the two big marks were made by his forefeet ; they look as if he hopped backward, but he
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Wood Hare.(Gray Rabbit.) BABBIT TRACKS 141 doesnt. How are these tracks made, uncle, do youknow ? Yes, but I am going to let you and Rap find thatout for yourselves. I know, said Rap; he swings his hind feet aroundhis fore paws. Ive often watched one do it. There is a Downy Woodpecker tapping on thetree, said Mr. Blake. Now Bunny sees it, and hisnose twitches as if he Avere saying, Hello ! is it onlyyou making all that noise ? I wonder what makes Rabbits so very scafey, saidNat; they always seem to be afraid of something, andtheir ears never stop jerking and twitching. Its because everybody and everything is alwayschasing them, said Rap. Precisely ! If you could spend a single day insideone of their leaf-brown skins, you would very soon seewhy poor brother Rabbit is so timid. Half of the yearhe is hunted by man ; all the year, in wild places, he isthe daily meat of the Fox, Skunk, Mink, Wildcat, andthe larger birds of prey, and when he comes near vil-lages or farms the house cats and

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