MINSTREL WEATHER $ CHAPTER 

 III. WAYS OF THE MARCH HARE 



ILLOW him to the woods 

 and you know his fascina- 

 tion, but never give the 

 March hare a reference for 

 sobriety. His reputation can- 

 not be rehabilitated, yet his intimates love 

 him in spite of it. He is such an accom- 

 plished tease ! He wakens, playful and in- 

 gratiating, with the sun; he skips cajolingly 

 among the crocuses; and before an hour 

 passes he is rushing about the fields in a 

 fury, scattering the worn-out, brown grass- 

 es, scaring the first robins, and bouncing 

 over the garden fence to break the necks of 

 any tulips deceived by his morning mood. 

 Impossible animal, he is an eccentric born, 

 glorying in his queerness; and none the 

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