Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dull and docile beagle-hound who, while following a rabbit will not tear off over the hills yelping his heart out if he happens on a hot deer trail...
...questioning old, feeble Indians possessed of knowledge of their race's ancient settlements. One Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
Years ago, before the mossless rolling stone was rampant on the shield of this particular vagabond the rolling Easter egg held sway. Painted in gaudy and inedible colors, the largest duck eggs were brought every Easter Monday by an Easter rabbit, and reckless little boys tried unsuccessfully to eat them. My pursuit of golden eggs in those days was as ardent as it is today...
...their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories, the Life and Times of Peter Rabbit, and an excellent treatise by Grimm on laeries...
...Only slightly less remarkable than the touch of magic by which, on the stage, a live rabbit emerges from an egg omelet is the sudden transformation of the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, from a fiery foe of the interests, an implacable enemy of the Republican party, the unwavering opponent of the Administration, the chief oratorical exponent of progressive Democracy, into a co-worker with Mr. Coolidge, a supporter of Mr. Mellon, a helpful aide to the harassed Smoot, a floor manager for the Administration...