The Hunter's Moon Author:Nathaniel Benchley "The Hunter's Moon rises as the sun is setting and for several nights in late autumn it brightens the landscape with cold light. It seems almost an extension of the day, but its gravitational pull makes people and animals do odd and sometimes irrational things: rabbits leap straight in the air for no reason whatever, and bartenders have their ha... more »nds full with noisier-than-usual customers. In mental hospitals, patients bay the moon. Then it wanes, and gradually the nights become dark and quiet...."« less