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They just stood real still and whenever I d start to
open my mouth one or the other would shake his
head at me.
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Then, all of a sudden, there was two shots down
the trail, just two shots real close together and then
it was all quiet again. Pop and Uncle Sagamore
looked at each other, and started to walk slow down
that way. I started to follow them, but Pop shook his
head.
 You d better go back to the house, he says.
 But Miss Harrington  I says. I felt like crying, I
was so worried something had happened to her.
Maybe she d fell and hurt herself.
 Never mind Miss Harrington, Pop says.  You go
on to the house.
They was crazy if they thought I was going back to
the house when I din t know what had become of her.
So the minute they was out of sight in the trees I cut
downhill and started running through the bush just
below the trail. In a minute I was ahead of them. I
turned to my left and got back on the trail and went
running along to the place where I d seen her last.
But before I got there I happened to look uphill and
there she was, standing in a little open place in the
trees. Dr Severance was with her. He was looking
down at something on the ground.
I was relieved to see she was all right. I cut off the
trail and ran up that way. But just before I got there
he waved his hand at her and I heard him say,  Go on
back to the trailer. I ll take care of these yokels.
She left and started walking away through the
trees, and I turned and was going to run over that
way to her but just then I saw Pop and Uncle
Sagamore coming. If they saw me here Pop would
give me a tanning for sure for not minding him. I
looked around real fast, trying to see if I could get
away by running in the other direction and then
circling back, but there wasn t much chance. There
was some thick bushes just to one side of where Dr
Severance was, though, so I dived into them and hid.
Now that I knew she was all right I wasn t worried
any more, so I began to be curious about what Dr
Severance was doing. I parted the leaves a little
where I was lying, and I could see him. He was only
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about ten feet away, still looking down at something
lying at his feet.
There was a log in the way so I couldn t make out
what it was at first, but then I saw a pair of legs in
gray pants sticking out a little beyond the end of it,
with the toes of the shoes pointing up in the air, and I
realized what it was. It was one of those rabbit
hunters. Then I saw the butt of the tommy gun, lying
on the ground next to him.
And just then Dr Severance walked over a little to
his right and looked down at something else, that
was behind a bush. I stared over that way, and
doggone if there wasn t another pair of legs sticking
out from behind it too. And another tommy gun. It
was the other rabbit hunter.
It sure looked like there d been a bad accident.
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Just then Pop and Uncle Sagamore walked up.
Dr Severance turned around and saw them.
He took out his handkerchief and mopped his face,
and shook his head kind of slow, like it was all too
much for him. He sat down on the log where the first
rabbit hunter was and let out a long, shaky breath.
 Gentlemen, he says,  it was awful. Just simply
awful.
 What happened? Pop asked.
Dr Severance mopped his face with the
handkerchief again and pointed at the rabbit hunters
one at a time, with his face turned away like he didn t
want to look at them.  Dead, he says, real sad.
 They re both dead. And all on account of one
crummy little rabbit.
 Well sir, that s a shame, Uncle Sagamore says,
 Just how did it happen?
 Well, Dr Severance says, taking a deep breath
and beginning to get a-hold of hisself a little,  I was
standing there by the trail when I saw these two men
walking by up here looking for rabbits. I was just
about to call out and ask  em, if they d had any luck,
when all of a sudden this little brown rabbit popped
out of a bush right between  em. It started to run off,
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but then for some reason it changed it s mind and
doubled back, right square between the two of  em
just as they both raised their guns and shot. It was
the most terrible thing I ever saw in my life. They just
killed each other deader than hell.
Uncle Sagamore bent down and looked at the first
rabbit hunter. He walked over to the other one and
rolled him over a little and looked down at him too.
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