about noon
After a while the rabbit began nibbling at some spears of grass that pushed through the wire of the cage . Ed pulled it back and examined the rabbit carefully . It seemed healthy and about as happy as a rabbit could expect to be in a cage . It did not get dark in the other world till about noon , that day ; and about seven , when it was dark in both worlds , Ed heard the jangle of the tin can alarm , followed by the snap of one of the steel traps . He took a flashlight and found a small hoofed animal , hardly bigger than old Tom , rearing and bucking with a broken leg in the trap . It had sharp little spike horns , only a few inches long , but mean . Ed got several painful jabs before he got the animal tied up and out of the trap .