He came out into a little starlit open and there he saw the rabbit going through a most marvelous pantomime.

It amazed him for a moment, and he stopped in his tracks.
Wapoos, the rabbit, had run his furry head into the snare, and his first frightened jump had "shot" the sapling to which the copper wire was attached so that he was now hung half in mid-air, with only his hind feet touching the ground.

And there he was dancing madly while the noose about his neck slowly choked him to death.
Baree gave a sort of gasp.

He could understand nothing of the part that the wire and the sapling were playing in this curious game.

All he could see was that Wapoos was hopping and dancing about on his hind legs in a most puzzling and unrabbitlike fashion.