LETTER XXXIV. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, May gth, 1776. 

 . admorunt ^^bera tigres? 



EAR SIR, We have remarked in a former 

 letter * how much incongruous animals, in 

 a lonely state, may be attached to each other 

 from a spirit of sociality; in this it may 

 not be amiss to recount a different motive 

 which has been known to create as strange 

 a fondness. 



My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him, 

 which the servants fed with milk in a spoon, and about the 

 same time his cat kittened and the young were despatched 

 and buried. The hare was soon lost, and supposed to be 

 gone the way of most fondlings, to be killed by some dog or 



* Letter XXIV. 



