Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — Turned the Tables. [ARTICLE]

Turned the Tables.

A little cotton-tail rabbit turned the tables on a party of 'hunters recently in a rather tragic manner. The Sunny South tells the story of how the hunted creature became the successful hunter. Louis Fries, a boy of fifteen, with hla father, Peter Fries, and Chris Blech, went out for a little sport They had walked a mile or two into the woods when a rabbit was started. The dog kept between them and the rabbit till the rabbit’s burrow was reached. The boy reached the burrow first He laid his gun, which was cocked, upon the ground, and securing a long pole, began punching Into the hole where the rabbit had disappeared. The rabbit, finding this procedure disagreeable, leaped from the hole so suddenly as to startle the boy and confuse the dog. At the first bound the rabbit’s foot struck the trigger of the gun. The force of the blow w r as sufficient to discharge

the gun, and the load of shot entered young Fries’ left thigh. The range was short, and the shot went into the boy In a bunch, making a wound that required an improvised tourniquet to prevent death from hemorrhage.