About nine o'clock
I rode all the rest of that day with the Rabbit quietly nestling in my hair . It was a long , hard day , for we continued till nightfall and then made a dark camp in a thick pine woods . It was impossible to make pictures then , so I put the little Rabbit under a leatheroid telescope lid , on a hard level place , gave him food and water , and left him for use in the morning . THE RABBIT DANCE About nine o'clock that night we were sitting about the fire , when from the near woods was heard a tremendous '' _ tap-tap-taptrrr _ , '' so loud and so near that we all jumped and stared into the darkness . Again it came , '' _ tap-tap-tap trrrrr _ , '' a regular drum tattoo . `` What is that ? '' we all exclaimed , and at that moment a large Rabbit darted across the open space lighted by the fire .