"They choose a sandy spot, where it will be warm and dry, and here they dig long, winding tunnels, or burrows, with their strong feet and stout blunt claws.
"They live together in great numbers, and make their burrows side by side. A great many burrows close together form a warren. The burrows are justbig enough for them. Foxes, and other wild flesh- eaters, cannot make their way into these holes, so that the rabbit is safe there from all its enemies.
"It is dark in the burrows of course, but the rabbit uses its whiskers instead of its eyes, and feels its way. At the end of the winding burrow is the rabbit"s home-a warm, snug nest made of grass, hay, and straw, from the fields around. Here the rabbit lives with his wife and children quite safe from harm.
"All day the rabbits hide in their burrows. After dusk, and early in the morning, they come out to scamper in the fields, and find their food. They do much damage by gnawing the farmer"s crops,so they have to reckon the farmer with his gun as another of their enemies."SUMMARY