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**"Assault on Mr. Price"** is a humorous anecdote about Martin Price of Northfield, Pennsylvania, who went rabbit hunting on November 18. When he chased a rabbit into a hole and reached in with his gun to prod it out, the panicked rabbit ran directly into him, triggering his weapon. The gun shot off, wounding Price in the leg, destroying two fingers, and striking his face. The accompanying cartoon shows rabbits fleeing. The satire mocks the irony of a hunter becoming the hunted—a cautionary tale about overconfidence and carelessness with firearms. The text's tone is darkly humorous, noting that while sympathetic to Price's injuries, rabbits cannot be trusted around guns.
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auT— Assault on Mr. Price. Vv ] E beg to express our sympathy for Martin Price, of Northfield, Pa., of whom the papers relate that he went out with dog and gun on November 18 toshootrabbits. Having chased a big bunny into a hole, he laid down his gun and proceeded with a golf club to prod the game out of its burrow. Out, to be sure, came banny with arash, and running in an excited and heedless fashion, trampled on the trigger of Mr. Price's weapon, which went off, shooting a leg off the dog, depriving Mr. Price of two fingers and filling his face and one leg with shot. The papers say the rabbit is still at large. We are very sorry for Mr. Price. Of course, his getting shot was an accident, but we do not acquit the rabbit of criminal carelessness in the matter. It was not unlike a rabbit to drive right into a gun without noticing whether it was cocked or not. Rabbits are careless and irresponsible little creatures, and unfit to be trusted with firearms. The Theatre in America. | HE theatre in America consists essentially of the stage, the auditorium, and the box office. ‘The stage is used for the creation of drafts and immoral situa- tions. In the auditorium, ingenuity is exhibited. Thus, each person ENDS WELL. in the auditorium is provided with a cubic yard of fresh air every second, or about ten times as much as he is given room to breathe. The auditorium takes its name from the circumstance of the con- versation in the boxes being audible from any part of it. The exact significance of the term box office is not settled. It is bly a corruption of Bucks Suffice, the motto of the Syndicate. Finished actors stand in the box office and assure the public that all the best re sold. comicbooks.com