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Title: Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880
An Illustrated Weekly

Author: Various

Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29200]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, OCT 19, 1880 ***

Produced by Annie McGuire

[Illustration: HARPER'S

YOUNG PEOPLE

AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

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VOL. I.--NO. 51. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
CENTS.

Tuesday, October 19, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
per Year, in Advance.

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[Illustration: IN THE CORN FIELD.]

RABBITS TO FIND.

BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.

"I say, Tad Murray, what's made you so late with your cows this
morning?"

"Late? Well, I guess you'd be late if you'd had such a time as I did. It
was all old Ben's fault."

"Ben's? Why, there he is now, chasing the brindled heifer. If she'd only
turn on him, she could pitch him over the fence like a forkful of hay."

"He's a better cow-dog than that ragged little terrier of yours, Carr
Hotchkiss; but he's an awful fellow to let into a corn field, 'specially
'bout this time of year."

"Into a corn field!"

"When there's a lot of rabbits in the shocks."

"Are there rabbits in your corn?"

"It's just alive with 'em. And Ben he gets after 'em, and the corn's all
cut and shocked, and he'll tear a shock of corn to pieces in no time;
and father says it's too bad, for he hasn't any time to kill rabbits."

"Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits."

"Is he?"

"He wouldn't hurt a shock of corn if he scratched clean through it. I'll
fetch him along soon's you get your cows in; and we'll get Dan Burrel
and Eph McCormick and Frank Perry, and we'll have the biggest rabbit
hunt you ever heard of."

"Don't I wish I had a gun!"

"Father's got one, but he won't let me put a finger on it."

"So's my father got one. It's a splendid good gun, too, but one of the
triggers is gone, and there's a hole you could stick your finger into in
the r