The cunning of Clancy was shown in his choice of the big pitcher, whose speed and spitball kept the Jackrabbit batters hitting toward right field or sending slow, easy bounders down toward the pitcher.
Norton was tearing for the plate when O'Neill, the Jackrabbit second baseman, running across, leaped and stretched out one hand.
For some time Billy Jackrabbit had been standing by the table looking greedily down upon the charlotte russes there.
Slowly, stealthily, Jackrabbit left the cabin, the two women, though for different reasons, watching him go until the door had closed behind him.
Deputy and Billy Jackrabbit took a lariat from the wall and proceeded to bind their prisoner fast.
Jackrabbit drew himself up quickly, but he was furious at interference from a source where it was wholly unexpected.
It was in the midst of these shouts that Billy Jackrabbit and Wowkle, unobserved by the others, quietly stole into the room and squatted themselves down under the blackboard.
It was while she was in the act of laying down the last one that the Girl broke in suddenly upon her thoughts with: "Say, Wowkle, did Billy Jackrabbit really propose to you?
Despite his objection, she had stipulated that, with Jackrabbit as a companion, she should accompany him to the outskirts of the camp.
Give Billy Jackrabbit fer two dolla' Mexican chip," he demanded in a guttural voice.
After looking us over for a moment or two, the jackrabbit wriggles her ears, turns away, twitches her cotton-ball tail and jackrabbit-jumps into the reeds.
Maybe they're at the sand dunes looking for the floppy-eared baby jackrabbit and its mother.
A jackrabbit arrested in full flight by a charge of shot turns a very spectacular somersault.
Ordinarily these dogs, who were also wise beasts, passed by the jackrabbit in his abundance with only inhibited longing.
The jackrabbit was a pest, but the cottontail was worth getting.
The Jackrabbit Economy Should the jackrabbit reflect on its situation it might think life is a conspiracy.
The ears may also represent an adaptation through which the jackrabbit can emit excess body heat to the environment, a useful ploy in deserts.
Threats to the jackrabbit come from above, too, where the golden eagle soars.
The blacktailed jackrabbit passes the day in a form, a basin scratched out beneath some bush.
The white-tailed jackrabbit is the largest hare native to the United States.
Fastest of its tribe and exceeded in this respect by only one native animal, the pronghorn, this lanky jackrabbit simply runs away from most pursuit.
Like most members of the hare family, the white-tailed jackrabbit is more active at night than during the day.
Outstanding exceptions are the jackrabbit and the porcupine, both of which lead nomadic lives.
Illustration] Here is the hind foot of a Snowshoe in winter, contrasted with the hind foot of a Jackrabbit that was nearly three times its weight.
The way to the Jackrabbit lay up a gulch behind the town.
It seems that Fraser took him down the Jackrabbit and he broke loose and worked through to our ground.
I got to take some breakfast down the Jackrabbit shaft to my prisoner.
The best of feeling did not exist between the owners of the Jackrabbit and those of the Mal Pais.
Far away could be heard the faltering cry of a coyote, bewailing a jackrabbit which he had not caught.
A jackrabbit jumped up and went bustling ahead, never leaving the paper-white streak of trail that seemed to fascinate it.
An occasional horse or steer would loom above the brush; once or twice a jackrabbit bounded across the trail, or a weary buzzard careened in the air overhead, as though figuring for me a fatal horoscope.
Well," replied the lad, approaching, "I dropped a dead jackrabbit in the well a week ago.
Following the direction of his pointed finger, Dorothy saw for the first time that a large jackrabbit hung from a crossbeam in a corner.
