They knew well enough what was happening. The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. So they lived as he wanted them to live and all the time there were a few who disappeared. They grew big and strong and healthy, for he saw to it that they had all of the best, particularly in winter, and nothing to fear-except the running knot in the hedge gap and the wood path. And then he snared them-not too many: as many as he wanted and not as many as would frighten them all away or destroy the warren. For his purpose they had to become accustomed to going about in the fields and the wood. He put out food for the rabbits, but not too near the warren. He began to shoot all elil-lendri, homba, stoat, owl. “One day the farmer thought, ‘I could increase those rabbits: make them part of my farm-their meat, their skins.
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