Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees.
It was from Massillon in the Spring of 1894 that "General'' Coxey led his rag-tag and bobtailed army of unemployed across the country to the Capitol at Washington to demand .
But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballothe called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"because it was unconstitutional.