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pliment to say that he was a dog of taste, and partook not 

 gluttonously and indiscriminately of the berries, in succession, 

 as they hung; but selected those he deemed preferable, and 

 crushed and swallowed them in a wellbred mode of leisurely 

 enjoyment. Another dog, afterwards kept by my father, 

 would, in like manner, help himself to, besides gooseberries, 

 raspberries and red or white currrants. — J. D. 



Posthumous Hares. — Sir, The following anecdotes occur in 

 the Dorset County Chronicle, for 27th September, 1832. 

 They may, perhaps, excite the unbelief of some ; but your 

 publication of them cannot, I imagine, displease any of your 

 readers. — TV. B. Clarke. Parkstone, near Poole y Sept, 28. 1832. 



" Wiltshire. One day last week, a sportsmany in the village 

 of Tilshead shot a lemale hare, which he immediately 

 paunched, and found in her three young ones, with but faint 

 symptoms of life. The next day, as the gentleman was shoot- 

 ing in the same field, he saw the three young hares in the 

 place in which he had left them ; but, to his great astonish- 

 ment, they were all alive. He took them home, with the 

 intention of rearing them. One of them has since died, but 

 the other two are still living, and doing well." 



" Cornwall. As Mr. Richard Rosewarne, of Guinear, was 

 carrying corn in one of his fields last week, a hare started 

 from the arish, and, Mr. Rosewarne being himself on the 

 spot with a greyhound, the dog very naturally followed", 

 caught, and killed her. On being taken home, the ha#e was 

 paunched, and the entrails thrown on a dunghill. In the 

 evening, a workman passing by thought he saw the entrails 

 in motion, and, on examining, found a young hare enclosed, 

 which, being immediately extracted, and placed before the 

 fire, soon became active, and partook freely of some warm 

 milk. The little animal, thus strangely preserved, is quite 

 the pet of the family, and is likely to add one to the members 

 of Mr. Rosewarne's domestic establishment." (Cornubian.) 



P. S. Perhaps your correspondent, S. V. W. [Vol. IV. 

 p. 274.], may pardon my using the present occasion, to say, 

 that, if your numerous other friends had not borne such testi- 

 mony to what I stated, respecting " hares taking the water " 

 (a fact, which I have since heard confirmed, nearly twenty 

 times, in other quarters), I might have quoted a parallel to 

 Havergate Island, in a small island in the " Little Belt," in 

 the Baltic Sea, in which is a colony of hares, which, according 

 to the statements of the Danes, swim over the water from the 

 other side of the channel. — W. B. C.,^, 



Some Account of the Habits, $c., of the Striped Squirrel of 

 Canada (Sciurus stridfus), Striped Dormouse Pennant. — This 



