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She ain ' so smart den -- she too mooch hongre . '' At daylight the two started , ` Merican Joe leading the way to a dense swamp that stretched from the lake shore far inland . Once in the thicket the Indian showed Connie how to set snares along the innumerable runways , or well-beaten paths of the rabbits , and how to secure each snare to the end of a bent sapling , or tossing pole , which , when released by the struggles of the rabbit from the notch that held it down , would spring upright and jerk the little animal high out of reach of the forest prowlers . During the forenoon Connie succeeded in shooting four of the big white snowshoe rabbits , and at the noon camp ` Merican Joe skinned these , being careful to leave the head attached to the skin . `` I did n't know rabbit skins were worth saving , '' said Connie , as the Indian placed them together with the carcasses in the pack . `` You wait -- by-m-by I show you somet ` ing , '' answered the Indian . And it was not long after the snare setting had been resumed that Connie learned the value of the rabbit skins .