Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 / An Illustrated Weekly

IN THE CORN FIELD.
I say, Tad Murray, what's made you so late with your cows this morning?
Late? Well, I guess you'd be late if you'd had such a time as I did. It was all old Ben's fault.
Ben's? Why, there he is now, chasing the brindled heifer. If she'd only turn on him, she could pitch him over the fence like a forkful of hay.
He's a better cow-dog than that ragged little terrier of yours, Carr Hotchkiss; but he's an awful fellow to let into a corn field, 'specially 'bout this time of year.
Into a corn field!
When there's a lot of rabbits in the shocks.
Are there rabbits in your corn?
It's just alive with 'em. And Ben he gets after 'em, and the corn's all cut and shocked, and he'll tear a shock of corn to pieces in no time; and father says it's too bad, for he hasn't any time to kill rabbits.
Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits.