After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve.

The danger of abductions of sacrosanct animals cannot be lightly cast aside. Masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, having served long and faithfully in the Peabody Museum, may be forcibly removed from their perches. The heads of elk and bison which have looked down from the walls in the Union upon generations of Harvard men would tempt any kleptomaniacal collector of mounted beasts. Beware the Jabberwock!

If indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists.