J 48 PerfeSlions of the Hare, 



* Almoil every one has experienced that 

 a Hare fees very imperfect ftraight forward ; 

 a fad inconveniency, you will fay, not to fee 

 well, nor hear the immediate danger that 

 is feemingly fo plain. Why really fo it is, 

 and the means of lliortening her little life, 

 frequently much fooner than the moft vio- 

 lent hunt would do. 



I have often heard fay, when a Hare has 

 been knocked down, or catched by a Dog 

 relaid, that fhe ran herfelf blind, which is 

 a notion of the niofl vulgar and illiterate 

 fpecies. 



Some maintain Hares to be of the tribe 

 of nocflurnal animals, that cannot fee well 

 in the day, their eyes being much the fame 

 as Cats or Owls, and of a contexture fuf- 

 ceptible of far nicer touches of the rays of 

 light, than creatures more habituated to 

 day-light. 



It is true, I am no Oculifl:, nor compe- 



* •* When fhe is purfued, the fear of the Dogs and 

 " Hunters takes away her prefence of mind, on which ac- 

 *' count (he often runs unknowingly againft many things, 

 *■• and fometimes falls into the fnare."— Xenophon. 



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