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Updated: May 7, 2025
I have often wondered where the countryfolk hide themselves, as I have walked hour after hour, past farm and croft and lonely door-yards, and never caught sight of a human face. If you should want to ask the way, a farmer is as shy as a squirrel, and if you knock at a farm-house door, all is as silent as a rabbit-warren.
Here I was in this old, black city, which was for all the world like a rabbit-warren, not only by the number of its indwellers, but the complication of its passages and holes. It was indeed a place where no stranger had a chance to find a friend, let be another stranger.
And what did he mean, in such horrible weather, by dragging you out to take a deposition in a place even colder than Flamborough itself that vile rabbit-warren on the other side of Bempton? Deposition of a man who had drunk himself to death and a Methodist too, as you could not help saying." "I said it, I know; and I am ashamed of saying it. I was miserably cold, and much annoyed about my coat."
Just think, my boy, what you were, and that not so very long ago an unwashed, hairy savage; your law that of the jungle, your morals those of the rabbit-warren. Now look at yourself dressed in your little shiny hat, your trousers neatly creased, walking with your wife to church on Sunday! Keep on that's all you've got to do. In a few more centuries your own mother Nature won't know you.
We must take all precautionary measures, for I do not know how many rascals we shall have to contend with, and that cave is like a rabbit-warren. Expect me as a Fakir at dusk. I will send for you when the time comes," and as Burton clattered away on his horse the camp understood that he had been called to headquarters on important business.
It is like a rabbit-warren." "Really!" said Leonard. "It swarms with old and young young ones mostly. Too many of 'em. We ought not to grieve too much when they are taken from this hard world to rest and safety. But the mothers do grieve, poor things! and the fathers too." "Perhaps you have lost a child lately," said Leonard, very gently. "He was buried yesterday."
It became known that those three men could not be stopped by threats, and that they always got their man unless he got into a human rabbit-warren of the Italian boarding-house species. That was the only escape that was possible.
Privacy is not one of his luxuries he wants a house full: where there is room for a bunk, there is room for a man. An anthill, a beehive, a rabbit-warren are his models of domestic comfort: what is stinted room for two Americans is spaciousness for a dozen Chinese. Go into one of their cabins at night, and you are in an oven full of opium- and lamp-smoke.
Without another word they turned and made for the camp as fast as they could go. Meanwhile, Dr Hayward and his party had been successful in their exploration, for they not only discovered a rabbit-warren, but had observed seals basking on the rocks, and found the tracks of goats, or some animal of that kind with divided hoofs.
"Well, s'long," they would say. And lounging after her, would overtake her in the shadow of the row of trees in front of the Agassiz School. If the Werner family had been city folk they would, perforce, have burrowed in one of those rabbit-warren tenements that line block after block of city streets.
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