Word: cottontails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buckramites motored up to Dutchess County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches, not one of these exasperating hares...
Modern man, the only living species of a once numerous human family, is as definitely pigeonholed in the animal world by taxonomists (biological classifiers) as is Sylvilagus floridanus, the cottontail rabbit. The gun-shooting, crystal-gazing, ballot-casting species-called Homo sapiens by taxonomic courtesy-belongs to the genus homo, the family of Hominidae, the order of primates, the class of mammals, the subphylum of vertebrates, the phylum of Chordata, and to the animal kingdom...
...soon obvious that a good many animals did not regard Shiva Temple as a "biological island." Naturalists Anthony and Andrews trapped or shot more mice, woodrats, chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said...
...Canadian summer cottage, a fine house near Buffalo, where he was living last week. How much money he has left, he refuses to say. He often visits the factory where his old friends work, owns a shabby car in which he goes on solitary hunting trips. *His hasenpfeffer: Use cottontail rabbits. Chop meat into quarters. Put meat in pickling and leave for three days. Cut onions in small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate pan. then add to onions and flour. Add "stock." Stir in a small amount...
...secret studio to which he escapes from moppets who make pilgrimages to the Peter Rabbit Man. He collects Spanish furniture, ship models, Persian ceramics. He travels where he will when he will, and life has left him, at the age of 56, as healthy and bright-eyed as Caleb Cottontail himself...