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“
Look
out
for
him
,
there
he
goes
.
”
Horns
were
blown
,
bells
rung
,
tin
pans
clamorously
beaten
.
Either
the
jack
escaped
,
or
confused
by
the
noise
,
darted
back
again
,
fleeing
away
as
if
his
life
depended
on
the
issue
of
the
instant
.
Once
even
,
a
bewildered
rabbit
jumped
fair
into
Mrs
.
Derrick
’
s
lap
as
she
sat
in
the
carry
-
all
,
and
was
out
again
like
a
flash
.
“
Poor
frightened
thing
,
”
she
exclaimed
;
and
for
a
long
time
afterward
,
she
retained
upon
her
knees
the
sensation
of
the
four
little
paws
quivering
with
excitement
,
and
the
feel
of
the
trembling
furry
body
,
with
its
wildly
beating
heart
,
pressed
against
her
own
.
By
noon
the
number
of
rabbits
discernible
by
Annixter
’
s
field
glasses
on
ahead
was
far
into
the
thousands
.
What
seemed
to
be
ground
resolved
itself
,
when
seen
through
the
glasses
,
into
a
maze
of
small
,
moving
bodies
,
leaping
,
ducking
,
doubling
,
running
back
and
forth
—
a
wilderness
of
agitated
ears
,
white
tails
and
twinkling
legs
.
The
outside
wings
of
the
curved
line
of
vehicles
began
to
draw
in
a
little
;
Osterman
’
s
ranch
was
left
behind
,
the
drive
continued
on
over
Quien
Sabe
.
As
the
day
advanced
,
the
rabbits
,
singularly
enough
,
became
less
wild
.
When
flushed
,
they
no
longer
ran
so
far
nor
so
fast
,
limping
off
instead
a
few
feet
at
a
time
,
and
crouching
down
,
their
ears
close
upon
their
backs
.
Thus
it
was
,
that
by
degrees
the
teams
began
to
close
up
on
the
main
herd
.
At
every
instant
the
numbers
increased
.
It
was
no
longer
thousands
,
it
was
tens
of
thousands
.
The
earth
was
alive
with
rabbits
.
Denser
and
denser
grew
the
throng
.
In
all
directions
nothing
was
to
be
seen
but
the
loose
mass
of
the
moving
jacks
.
The
horns
of
the
crescent
of
teams
began
to
contract
.
Far
off
the
corral
came
into
sight
.
The
disintegrated
mass
of
rabbits
commenced
,
as
it
were
,
to
solidify
,
to
coagulate
.
At
first
,
each
jack
was
some
three
feet
distant
from
his
nearest
neighbor
,
but
this
space
diminished
to
two
feet
,
then
to
one
,
then
to
but
a
few
inches
.
The
rabbits
began
leaping
over
one
another
.
Then
the
strange
scene
defined
itself
.
It
was
no
longer
a
herd
covering
the
earth
.
It
was
a
sea
,
whipped
into
confusion
,
tossing
incessantly
,
leaping
,
falling
,
agitated
by
unseen
forces
.
At
times
the
unexpected
tameness
of
the
rabbits
all
at
once
vanished
.
Throughout
certain
portions
of
the
herd
eddies
of
terror
abruptly
burst
forth
.
A
panic
spread
;
then
there
would
ensue
a
blind
,
wild
rushing
together
of
thousands
of
crowded
bodies
,
and
a
furious
scrambling
over
backs
,
till
the
scuffing
thud
of
innumerable
feet
over
the
earth
rose
to
a
reverberating
murmur
as
of
distant
thunder
,
here
and
there
pierced
by
the
strange
,
wild
cry
of
the
rabbit
in
distress
.
The
line
of
vehicles
was
halted
.
To
go
forward
now
meant
to
trample
the
rabbits
under
foot
.
The
drive
came
to
a
standstill
while
the
herd
entered
the
corral
.
This
took
time
,
for
the
rabbits
were
by
now
too
crowded
to
run
.
However
,
like
an
opened
sluice
-
gate
,
the
extending
flanks
of
the
entrance
of
the
corral
slowly
engulfed
the
herd
.
The
mass
,
packed
tight
as
ever
,
by
degrees
diminished
,
precisely
as
a
pool
of
water
when
a
dam
is
opened
.
The
last
stragglers
went
in
with
a
rush
,
and
the
gate
was
dropped
.
