THE NEW YORK HERALD — JUNE 4, 1921
From the Topeka Capital
Frank Van Wye. carrier on Route 2, brought in a peculiar sight Wednesday morning in the way of a horned rabbit that had been shot the day before by Mrs. Lew Turner. It was a cottontail, seemingly of considerable age, having twelve well developed horns measuring from an inch to two inches in length.—Woodson County Advocate.
Let us reflect a moment, good people. Let us imagine Kansas two million years hence. A new prehistoric animal has been discovered. Scientists will give it a Latin name and announce to the world that this creature, though small, evidently was very dangerous to mankind, being built for fleetness and equipped with twelve horns, a wound from any one of which sent its victims to a speedy death. The horned rabbit of to-day may bring signal recognition to some deductive scientist of the far away to-morrow.
From— The New York Herald. (New York, N.Y.), 04 June 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
