Somebody brought rabbits there and let them loose, and in a few years there were so many that everything that was planted was eaten green.
She painted pictures of all the livestock he possessed, from rabbits to a Norman stallion.
I promised George to take him out shooting to-morrow--the rabbits are really getting intolerable.
Why, when his mother complained that the rabbits had eaten her carnations, did he positively assert that no mortal rabbit could possibly have come near them.
And none of our family ever did have tails after that, for they never would grow any more, and all the little new rabbits just had bunches of cotton, too, and that has never changed to this day.
Two or three bolted like rabbits into the keep; the rest cried for quarter and flung down their arms; the din of battle suddenly ceased, and some seventeen panic-stricken prisoners were the prize of the victors.
Boys scurried like rabbits out of his path; women raised shrill cries as stalls were thrown down and apples rolled wide; dogs barked and girls shrieked; but he was past; the church clock said one minute to eight!
Nothing, Monsieur, but the scurry of rabbits in the fosse.
His movements caused a rustle, but being followed by the scurrying of rabbitsdisturbed in the brake, such slight customary noises were not likely to alarm the sentry, even if he should near them.
A grass-clad rock in the Fiume Gulf can tell the same tale: sheep and lambs were effectually eaten out by rabbits and cats.
Here wild pigeons are sometimes caught at night, and rabbits and partridges are or were not extinct.
But now I am a Christian, a good Catholic, seven rabbits are enough for me--I will eat no more!
The rabbits in the North are the food of the lynx; cheap little bunny keeps the vital spark aglow in the bodies of those animals with richer fur who feed upon him.
Rabbits are numerous, but the ladies of the Establishment make no great effort in snaring them.
In the delta are cross, red, and silver foxes, mink and marten, with lynx and rabbits according to the fortunes of war.
When I was a heathen Chipewyan and trapped with my mother's tribe I ate tenrabbits a day.
The one conjecture round the bar and in the home is, "When will the rabbits run this year?
The poor rabbits themselves were at a loss, for no kind monition apprised them of the coming flood.
Rabbits fight chiefly by kicking and scratching, but they likewise bite each other; and I have known one to bite off half the tail of its antagonist.
Rabbits stamp loudly on the ground as a signal to their comrades; and if a man knows how to do so properly, he may on a quiet evening hear the rabbits answering him all around.
We found the Reef Islands in this sound so abundant in rabbits since Captain Stokes's forethought had set some loose upon them, that, in two visits of four hours with but four guns, 100 brace were brought on board.
He was growing just a bit tired of going after nothing but rabbits and squirrels.
Wild turkeys are a good sight better than rabbits or squirrels, or even pheasants," said Fred.
We may see nothing bigger than squirrels, rabbits and partridges, and maybe a mink or a fox.
Fred and Jack had not forgotten the sport they had had earlier in the season, when they had gone out with Frank Newberry and some others on a hunt for rabbits and other small game.
But even a few rabbits and a few squirrels won't be so bad.
The breeze was lively, and smelled excellent of flowers and grass, and the little cottontail rabbits entertained themselves with skylarking across the road.
In a glade five jack-rabbits leaped and played together like kittens.
But the mock-bird whistled on every bough of vantage; leagues of flowers scented the air; and a kindergarten of little shadowy rabbits leaped and played in an open space near by.
They didn't blindfold therabbits or the porcupine.
Rabbits and birds and porcupines would be considered specimens of the local living creatures.
The rabbits shivered and crouched, terrified, in one corner.
The rabbits and us, we stay caged until they're ready to do whatever they're goin' to do with us.
We racketed along, and our dust tried to catch us, and sleepy, accustomed jack rabbits made two perfunctory hops as we turned on them the battery of our exhaust.
Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar.
In 1887 Wooldridge succeeded in protecting rabbits from anthrax by a new method, by which he showed that the growth of the anthrax bacillus in special culture fluids gave rise to a substance which, when inoculated, conferred immunity.
The exact details are as follows: The spinal cords of two rabbits dead of rabies are removed from the spinal canal in their entirety by means of snipping the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
Some of them have employed scores of men, and spent thousands of pounds a year in ineffectual efforts to eradicate the rabbits from their runs.
It is found, as with us, that one of the chief causes of non-success is the fact that the Government do not take sufficient steps to destroy the rabbits on unoccupied Crown lands.
I thought it was curious that there were norabbits here," he said.
I shouldn't be surprised, if we had a dog and put him among those whins, but half-a-dozen rabbits would bolt out in all directions.
He has shown that rabbits inoculated with the bacillus of rouget become very ill and die, but if the inoculations be carried through a series of rabbits, a notable modification results in the bacillus.
This simply means that the rabbits have effected, or the bacillus has undergone while in them, an attenuation of virulence.
As regards the rabbits themselves, no favorable change occurs--they are all made very ill, or die.
Why they chose to carry dead rabbits there, unless it was that they enjoyed seeing the mules so frightened, there seemed no explaining.
They popped their heads up, and you saw them scampering away wherever you went; and in the early morning it was very funny to see the rabbits jumping and leaping to get off out of sight when they heard people stirring.
That is what we keep them for, to hunt the gophers and rabbits and moles.
Another thing the cats did, which gave the men much amusement, was, that when they had killed rabbits they carried the bodies into the mules' stables.
You see they are so big they can't get in under the bridge, and he can; so they drive the rabbits in under there, and he goes in and gets them.
He had been greatly troubled by gophers and rabbits: the gophers killed his trees by gnawing their roots; the rabbits burrowed under his vines, ate the tender young leaves, and gnawed the stems.
Bring your little dog for a run, to rout up some rabbits or monkeys for Tippler.
They will be happy there, for the rabbitsand gulls have not spoilt the grass.
Whitefoot knew quite well what it was to chase rabbits and hares into just such nets.
To be fond of reading and poetry, and all sorts of things; and he wanted to shoot rabbits and go fishing.
He's saved us the trouble of exterminating the rabbits there, I notice.
Illustration] The confines of a large estate constitute a poacher's paradise, for although partridge and grouse require land suited to their taste, rabbits and pheasants are common to all preserved ground.
However lucky the moucher may be among pheasants, partridge, or grouse, rabbits are and must be the chief product of his nights.
As twilight came we used to lie quiet among the rocks and boulders, and, armed with the old flint-lock, knock over the rabbits as soon as they had settled to feed.
During night poaching for rabbits and hares the ground game is driven from its feeding ground to the woods or copses.
When charged with being in possession of "game" we reiterated the old argument that rabbits were vermin--but it rarely stood us in good stead.
As soon as we detected the trick, we were careful to let the coloured rabbits go free.
In this way I have taken many scores of rabbits in a single night.
A cruel practise used to obtain among poachers of stitching together the lips of ferrets to prevent their worrying rabbits and then "laying up.
This is a square, deep box, built into the ground, and immediately opposite to a smoot-hole in the fence through which the rabbits run from wood or covert to field or pasture.
As therabbits run through, the floor opens beneath their weight, and they drop into the "well.
A dark windy night is best for the work, as in such weather rabbits feed far out in the fields.
Unlike hares, rabbits rarely squeal when they become entangled; and this allows one to ferret long and silently.
Rabbits bolt best on a windy day and before noon; after that they are sluggish and often refuse to come out at all.
Each year about half-a-dozen black or white rabbits were turned down into certain woods.
I feel bound to caution the boys about disturbing the wild rabbits that in summer breed in my currant-patch, and in autumn seek refuge under my study floor.
Seven or eight years ago I used to set deadfalls forrabbits just over there, and the game was always partly eaten up.
She could hear the rabbits and squirrels scurrying back into their retreats.
Carlos was away from the camp nearly every day, returning with rabbits that he shot on the plains.
I will bring food and the skins of many wild rabbitsthat I have sewed together in the evenings, that you may not freeze.
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