Info: Lobo, Rag and Vixen, and pictures; being the personal histories of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug and Vixen (1914) (14591989579).jpg

"Rag followed the snow-white beacon." From: Raggylug, The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit
Identifier: loboragvixenpict00setouoft (find matches)Title: Lobo, Rag and Vixen, and pictures; being the personal histories of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & VixenYear: 1914 (1910s)Authors:  Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946Subjects:  Animals, Legends and stories ofPublisher:  New York ScribnerContributing Library:  Gerstein - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:and halt and cast in vain. Theirspell is broken by the merry stream, and thewild thing lives its life. And this was one of the great secrets thatRaggylug learned from his mother—after theBrierrose, the Water is your friend. One hot, muggy night in August, Molly ledRag through the woods. The cotton-whitecushion she wore under her tail twinkled aheadand was his guiding lantern, though it went outas soon as she stopped and sat on it. After afew runs and stops to listen, they came to theedge of the pond. The hylas in the trees abovethem were singing sleep, sleep, and away outon a sunken log in the deep water, up to hischin in the cooling bath, a bloated bullfrog wassinging the praises of a jug o rum Follow me still, said Molly, in rabbit,and * flop she went into the pond and struckout for the sunken log in the middle. Ragflinched but plunged with a little ouch,gasping and wobbling his nose very fast butstill copying his mother. The same move-ments as on land sent him through the water,Text Appearing After Image:Rag followed the snow-white beacon. Raggylug 97 and thus he found he could swim. On he wenttill he reached the sunken log and scrambledup by his dripping mother on the high dry end,with a rushy screen around them and the Waterthat tells no tales. After this in warm, blacknights, when that old fox from Springfield cameprowling through the Swamp, Rag would notethe place of the bullfrogs voice, for in case ofdirest need it might be a guide to safety. Andthenceforth the words of the song that thebullfrog sang were, * Come, come, in danger coinedThis was the latest study that Rag took upwith his mother—it was really a post-graduatecourse, for many little rabbits never learn it atall. VI No wild animal dies of old age. Its life hassoon or late a tragic end. It is only a questionof how long it can hold out against its foes.But Rags life was proof that once a rabbitpasses out of his youth he is likely to outlivehis prime and be killed only in the last third oflife, the downhill third we calNote About Images
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