I S'POSE it takes a feller 'at's be'n Raised in a country-town, like me, To @3'preciate@1 rabbits! . . . Eight er ten Bellerin' boys and two er three Yelpin' dawgs all on the trail O' one little pop-eyed cottontail! 'Bout the first good fall o' snow -- So's you kin track 'em, don't you know, Where they've run, -- and one by one Hop 'em up and chase 'em down And prod 'em out of a' old bresh-pile Er a holler log they're a-hidin' roun', Er, way en-nunder the ricked cord-wood Er crosstie-stack by the railroad track 'Bout a mile Out o' sight o' the whole ding town! . . . Well! them's times 'at I call good! Rabbits! -- w'y, as my thoughts goes back To them old boyhood days o' mine, I kin sic him now and see "Old Jack" A-plowin' snow in a rabbit-track And a-pitchin' over him, head and heels, Like a blame' hat-rack, As the rabbit turns fer the timber-line Down the County Ditch through the old cornfields. . . . Yes, and I'll say right here to you, Rabbits that boys has @3earnt,@1 like that -- Skinned and hung fer a night or two On the old back-porch where the pump's done froze -- Then fried 'bout right, where your brekfust's at, With hot brown gravy and shortenin' bread, -- Rabbits, like @3them@1 -- er I ort to 'a' said, I s'pose, Rabbits like @3those@1 Ain't so p'ticalar pore, I guess, Fer @3eatin'@1 purposes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONFESSIONAL by ROBERT BROWNING THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 32 by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE ARROW AND THE SONG by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE PRESENT CRISIS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE AGED LOVER RENOUNCETH LOVE by THOMAS VAUX |