CHAPTER VI 



BACK ON CARN BREA 



On leaving the moor the hare headed as if to 

 return to Tregonebris, but in the dip below the 

 stone-circle he suddenly changed his course and 

 made straight for Brea. He had that instant 

 formed the resolve to forage on the farm there 

 and to harbour afterwards on his native hill. 

 His panic pace, even more the staring eyes 

 turned ever behind him, bespoke his nervous con- 

 dition ; but the farther he went the more com- 

 posed he grew, and he was almost his normal 

 self by the time he reached his destination. 



There he roamed in search of food from pas- 

 ture to pasture, wondering to see the change 

 that had come over them since his early leveret 

 days. Then the corn and the grass rose high 

 above his head ; he recalled how he had stood on 

 his hind legs and looked over the array of ears ; 

 now there was not herbage enough to cover 

 his pads. But despite the nakedness of the en- 



