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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1535, 17 August 1905, Page 4

This is the kind of rabbit stories they are telling in Australia :-In some parts of Viotoria Brer Babbit has beoome so intelligent that ordinary traps and poisoned baits-oven those made of sweet jams placed temptingly on the top of fwahi yturned sods-ore passed by wi h the up raised head of scorn. Also, in places where the rabbits have been established far many years, wire-netting is treated with derision, They have grown proficient in and simply steeplechase over the_ wire. Many of these intelligent othletw old rabbit-identities have noted that dogs can’t climb trees. This bas induced them to learn the art themselveß, with the result that the man who shoots at P«» n “ “ the moonlight is sometimes staggered o find rabbits pouring down on him. ■» this is seldom, for the rabbit-up-a-tree has already learned when to come in out of the moon This evidence of advanced educaion rooontly inspired a oooky with a *® despairing idea. He studied the swarming rabbits with great dibgenoo, audto ““ thorn to bo kind and extremely generous in disposition. Thon he put up notices on his holding: 11 Babbits are kindly requested to keep off this property.” For awhile there seemed to be no diminution bumiy-rather an inoreasei hut m b>B b wind one of the notioes was blown down. An old buok oautiously and examined the face of the board carefully. . Then he left thoughtfully, full of news and 1 grass. A week later on that farm tboro wasn’t-an owner/ He had been remanded for medical examination.