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Snaring Rabbits.
The deepening snow about the cabin was marked in all the thickets by the multitudinous tracks of the snowshoe rabbits or white hares.
Occasionally the hunters saw them, but paid little heed.

Why should they look at rabbits when deer were plentiful?
"You catch rabbit ?" asked Quonab one day when Rolf was feeling fit again.
"I can shoot one with my bow," was the answer, "but why should I, when we have plenty of deer ?" "My people always hunted rabbits.

Sometimes no deer were to be found; then the rabbits were food.

Sometimes in the enemy's country it was not safe to hunt, except rabbits, with blunt arrows, and they were food.
Sometimes only squaws and children in camp--nothing to eat; no guns; then the rabbits were food." "Well, see me get one," and Rolf took his bow and arrow.