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This Strange Nature Story Gives a New Explanation of the Behaviour of Hunted Animals
The
Rabbit that
Hunted a Stoat
By
STUART
GELDER
N Saturday, August 28, this year, Ed- Kinnear. 2 ward
shepherd living in the West- morland hamlet of Hartsop.
Hongkong Telegraph. Patterdale, described
SATUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1037.
CHINA'S HEROES The most dismal sceptic will admit to-day that a nation which produces men of the fibre of those who continue to hold out
the
ex-
following remakable perience to a group of countrymen and myself.
away,
For Once the Victim Unless there is a super rabbit
this shepherd's experience de- both weasel and stoat are drin- with the peculiar molishes a widely held theory, kers of blood may have some- and is of the deepest interest thing to do
behaviour of their victims. to naturalists.
"At three o'clock this after, noon, I was in Wath pasture, near Haysdale Beck, Hartsop, with my sheepdog Sweep and an Ullawnter foxhound, Rattler.
was "An artist
sketching in Chapei against overwhelming there, and I walked over and A few minutes odds, preferring death to sur-sat near him.
was A rustling render or retreat, possesses rich later, there material for the building of fu-noise, and I saw a large full for the stoat, but we didn't sce
grown stoat running a few feet either animal again. ture greatness. While the
"I know the rabbit had young stories told by Chinese news
because her belly was bare, but I don't know wether the stont agencies of "Dare-to-Die" units which have thrown themselves "Chasing it, some yards be- had been near them, although it
"Is it possible," he asked, which has Mr. E. L. Grant Watson's "that the blood him from the Beck. to death in the service of their hind, was a big rabit. The looked as though she chased published long extracts from
"Enigmas of Natural History," always been considered as the country have not been exactly artist heard the noise and said,
"I have lived in the country described as one of the most vehicle of life, may be, in some disbelieved, they have been ac- What's that?' I didn't know cepted, in some quarters at least, for a moment if I could believe all my life, and my father is a important nature books publish way which is at present quite gamekeeper, so I have seen a ed for years. One of the most unknown to us, under the in- their my eyes, so I didn't answer. few birds and beast, but I have fascinating chapters was
en- fluence of the creature which of thirsts for it, and that the blood authenticity. There is no longer Then he looked up and saw for never seen a rabbit hunting a titled: "The Strange Case
stoat before and I've never the Rabbit
Welcomes which is the life responds to the heard of anyone else who has,
stoat or the weasel, even while any question of the spirit of
Death."
within the veins of the victims, China's fighting men and their
*
He described how a rabbit, thus destroying the normal in- Under capacity for heroism.
with 'doubt 43 10
himself.
Last November there
that
was
of fear
soon
"The stont ran to the wall and jumped into a gap. The rabbit went straight to the "I remember how, at Silloth, hunted by men or dogs, would tegrity of the instinctive com- the eyes of foreign troops on the place where the stoat had dis-
This idea has been advanced south bank of Soochow Creek appeared and sat motionless. A in 1917, my best ferret was put run for its life with a very good plex for self-preservation?"
clouted rabbit, hunted by a stoat, would by him as a suggestion, but it is they made their gallant stand, second or two later, the stunt to bolt a rabbit from a dyke chance of escape, but that a
peered out and we could see its She wouldn't go, and refusing the refuge offered by head and forefeet. The rabbit him with her hind feet, so that go hunching and limping, as one, he says, which will not ap- pear so unlikely to anyone who the International Settlement, looked straight at it and he came out and wouldn't face though the paralysis
has had the opportunity of close- hut accepting with gratitude a drummed hard with her hind her again. She did the same to were cramping all its muscles.
"The chase is a short one," ly observing a rabbit or a stoat,
"for very
the or a weasel or a mouse, when share of Ulster Riflemen's ra- legs. The stoat disapeared ins- two other ferrets. But I had
sat always believed that a rabbit he said, tantly, and the rabbit
was helpless with a stoat, and rabbit will crouch down in a associated in their instinctive re- tions smuggled to them and a
motionless again.
there is no doubt that in most despair of panic to
await the lationship.
It would seem that whatever: huge, resplendant Chinese flag
"A few seconds more, and out. cases it looks as though the rab- swift coming of its pursuer, and from the Shanghai Chamber of popped the stoat's head. The bit is paralysed when hunted.
while it endures these last theories or opinions have been. Commerce. It is doubtful if at rabbit drummed with its hind
naturalists are agreed that There can be no doubt of the dreadful moments of its life, it held on this compelling subjects, there is an instinctive relation-- any point in China's history a legs once more, and the stoat
accuracy of Edward Kinnear's screams continually.". more gallant gesture has been went in.
observations. I think there is Mr. Grant Watson added that ship of rabbit and stoat, and that chased "Then, Sweep
the also little doubt that he is one we have no definite knowledge it is expressed by the destruc- made than by these few weary soldiers, the last of a rear-guard rabbit back to her burry near of the only men in the country of why or how the instincts of tion of the rabbit, which, from the Beck. The hound went up who has seen a rabbit hunting a rabbits and mice become per- the observations of hundreds of to the wall and sniffed around atont, and probably the only verted in this way when hunted people, has always appeared not
one whose experience has been by the stoat and weasel, but it only an easy but almost a will so definitely recorded.
which protected successfully the retreat from Chapel. Their ex- ploit will win the unhesitating acclaim of the world and undying) honour and respect from their own people.i
*
which, in themselves, comprise a strong case for preparedness.
seems possible that the fact that ing victim.
BULLS AND INNERS
From the Office Butts
He says: "Mussolinl wants peace in Europe until he and his Mr. David Lloyd George con- fellow-dictator are ready, “Pre-| tinues to live up to his reputa
Isumably he means Herr Hitler. the tion. When he rises. in House of Commons this fiery, "He is pouring troops into little Welshman can be relied Libya," L. G. goes on, referring upon to keep the Press Gallery's now to Mussolini, "conquering Fruit Prices" an esteemed con- a police station the other day attention and win his way to the the Abyssinians, Interfering in
temporary reports that prices of Perhaps the sergeant on duty front pages, even though, in Palestine, fortifying positions in
lard and charcoal have greatly was singing "Trees.” these times, fellow Members of the Red Sea, establishing air and increased. Surely the heading the House are apt to listen with submarine baacs in the Balearics, should have been "Fat's in the an amused smile. But it would and another at the Canary
Fire."
Under the hending "Local An unmuzzled dog ran
口
into
This is not intended in any sense as a criticism of Mr. Grant: Watson, but rather as a contri.. bution to a subject to which he has devoted so much of his life.
Edward Kinnear's experience would seem to show that this bloody relationship of the rabbit and stoat is not instinctive, for with such fearless determina- tion and strike its traditional enemy with such fear, it is not unreasonable to assume that all
• rabbits could hunt all stoats in the same manner.
if one rabbit can hunt a stoat
J A leading doctor confessed on Thursday that he had worn the same "topper" for thirty years. Off and on, of course.
Civil servanta look decidedly
27.0
Whether or not this power is
given only to doe rabbits with young could be proved only after prolonged observations, If those were ever possible.
Certainly the theory that the stoot in BOTNO way "hypno-
be a pity to under-rate Mr. Lloyd Island" and is apparently mount- George. He possesses a know-ing German guns to threaten ledge of affairs at home and Gibraltar. All of these things European ladies are to be abroad which most, ministers of Mr. Lloyd George takes as taught Chinese cooking. We
to weakening the strategic position suspect that they are becoming smart in their now uniforms. tises" the rabbit has not been the Crown would be glad boast, and few can improve of the British Empire. That is tired of that alibi "I'm going out They should not, however, stand proved, but has been assumed upon. He is frankly suspicious probably true; but Mr. Lloyd to a Chinese Chow party to with thumbs in line with the after generations of man have, of Italy and he thoroughly de- George, or Great Britain, cannot
night, dear." texts
the Fascist dictatorship, find a law to stop it and the but when he sounds a warning, Welshman does not offer any such as he did yesterday, it must remedy. His remarks must be
As far as we can gather, Hong-accidental observation has shown not be concluded that his con- taken, as they are probably in-held at the Y.W.C.A. for cook-kong's refugees are leaving here that even the theory is unrelia
cern
O 口 Cookery classes are also to bo
scam of the trousers, and salutele Mr. Grant Watson, witness- ed the dreadful helplessness of like Admirals.
rabbits hunted by stoats.
D
The Westmorland shepherd's
Is an outgrowth of pre-tended, to be a warning against boya and amohs. The Young to arrive in Shanghai as re-ble and presented a new and even
Women's Culinary Association. fugees. judice. He marshals a few facts unwariness..
more fascinating problem.