Guests are given a tour, then outfitted in Barbour jackets and left-hand gloves. (In the old days, the right hand was your "knife hand, " and thus left uncovered.) And off they're sent to a big, grassy knoll fringed by woodland, to hunt for a stuffed rabbit.

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Hours earlier, Fifi was sound asleep in her crate, a red rabbit stuffed toy at her paws, looking like the most docile dog in the world.

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