Every Boy's Book

Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

The Rabbit

2 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

The Rabbit

OF all domesticated animals dear to the British schoolboy's heart the rabbit is, perhaps, the most general favourite.

The Rabbit: Perfect

The ears must in every case be exceedingly long, and must never stand upright, as in the common rabbit of the warren. The most perfect and…

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