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hatchets. Thus we fee how difadvanta- 

 o-eous the ignorance and inconfiderate con- 

 tempt of uieful arts is. Happy is the 

 country which knows their full value ! 



January the 5th. Christmas-day 

 was celebrated this day by the Swedes and 

 EngHfh, for they kept then to the old Jlile. 

 January the 6th. There are a great 

 number of hares in this country, but they 

 differ from our Swedifh ones in their fize, 

 which is very fmall, and but little bigger 

 than that of a rabbit -, they keep almolr. 

 the fame grey colour both in fummer and 

 winter, which our Northern hares have in 

 fummer only ; the tip of their ears is al- 

 ways grey, and not black ; the tail is like- 

 wife grey on the upper fide, at all feafons ; 

 they breed feveral times a year : in fpring 

 they lodge their young ones in hollow 

 trees, and in fummer, in the months of 

 June and July, they breed in the grafs. 

 When they are furprifed they commonly 

 take refuge in hollow trees, out of which 

 they are taken by means of a crooked (rick, 

 or by cutting a hole into the tree, oppofite 

 to the place where they lie ; or by fmoke, 

 which is occaftoned by making a fire on 

 the outiide of the tree. On all thefe occa- 

 sions the greyhounds muft be at hand. 

 Thefe hares never bite, and can be touched 

 without any danger. In day-time they 



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