142 PerfeSfwns of the Harey 



matter, to think, becaufe they have an ear 

 on each fide the head, and can liftcn to a 

 Kennel of Hounds, whether they run to 

 right or left, ilraight forward or backward, 

 that a Hare can do the fame : upon my 

 word thofe who think fo are egregioufly 

 miftaken ; a Hare under purfuit has the fad- 

 defl imperfed: affiftance from her ears 

 ilraight before or iideways, that can pof- 

 fibly be, her chief excellence being only in 

 a fenfibility of the founds that lie behind 

 her. This is the perfection and primary 

 caule fhe owes her prefervation to, her ta- 

 lent of running being only a fecondary qua- 

 lity. 



It is this ability warns her in time to 

 Ileal from form, and deceive the creeping 

 Poacher ; by this blefTmg fhe outilrips the 

 fleet Greyhound, attentive to the noife of 

 every flretch, and found of every pant : or 

 when llarted by the fagacious Pack, to con- 

 tinue her courfe, with refolute expedition, 

 till quite free from their clamour ; yet, at 

 the fame time, mifapprehenfive, and deaf 

 to the noife of enemies before, alone intent, 

 and all her faculties employed, on that fm- 



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