240 NATURAL HISTORY 
are sprouted. In the same manner did these 
young adders attempt to bite before their fangs 
were in being. The dam, however, was furnished 
with very formidable ones, which we lifted up 
(for they fold down when not used), and cut them 
off with our scissors. 
LETTER XXX. 
Selborne, May 9, 1776. 
Dear Sizr,— 
“* Admorunt ubera tigres.” 
WE have remarked in a former letter how much 
incongruous animals, in a lonely state, may be at. 
tached to each other from a spirit of sociality; in 
this it may not be amiss to recount a different mo. 
tive, which has been known to create as strange a 
fondness. 
My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to 
him, which the servants fed with milk in a spoon, 
and about the same time his Cat had kittens, which 
Hays 
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Al. 
