142 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

Suddenly, down came a rabbit, jumping
high in the air, his huge ears flapping for-
ward and back, as if they had wilted in
the hot sun.

Then another rabbit, then another! Then
ten, twenty, forty, fifty, five hundred, a
thousand, all jumping over each other and
upon each other, and against the nets, with
their long legs thrust through the meshes,
and wriggling and struggling till the nets
shook as in a gale.

Then came the long lines of half-naked
brown boys tumbling down after them out
of the brush, and striking right and left,
up and down, with their clubs.

In less than ten minutes from the time
they came out of the brush, the little fel-
lows had laid down their clubs and were
dragging the game together.

The grave professors shook their hats
and handkerchiefs, and shouted with de-
light from their windows overhead, and all
the white boys danced about, wild with ex-
citement.