Hedgerow Life 
their way to feed. They feed a good 
deal at night, hiding by day in their 
‘form’ in long grass or anything high 
enough to hide them; and when they 
pass from one field to another they 
always use the same hole, which can be 
easily found by the track which leads up 
to it and passes through the hole. This 
is its ‘meuse.’ When the snow is deep 
they make their ‘form’ or bed in it. 
Sometimes they are entirely covered 
over with snow, except just a small hole 
kept open by their warm breath ; and 
inside they sit, quite warm, and snug, 
and hidden. 
The enemies of the rabbits and hares 
also leave ¢hezr footprints, and you may 
sometimes see the traces where a fox 
has followed a hare on its wanderings 
during the previous night, and from them 
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