rabbit-woods

Updated: May 22, 2025

If it's strange, it's hostile. Dust and water burn the scent. Never hunt mice in a rabbit-woods, or rabbits in a henyard. Keep off the grass. Inklings of the meanings of these were already entering the little ones' minds thus, 'Never follow what you can't smell, was wise, they could see, because if you can't smell it, then the wind is so that it must smell you.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Lobo, Rag and Vixen: Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen

If it's strange, it's hostile. Dust and water burn the scent. Never hunt mice in a rabbit-woods, or rabbits in a henyard. Keep off the grass. Inklings of the meanings of these were already entering the little ones' minds thus, 'Never follow what you can't smell, was wise, they could see, because if you can't smell it, then the wind is so that it must smell you.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known