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into small squares, placed this every evening in 

 their chambers; for they feed only at evening and 

 in the night. During the winter, when vegetables 

 were not to be got, I mingled this mess of bread 

 with shreds of carrot, adding to it the rind of apples 

 cut extremely thin; for, though they are fond of 

 the paring, the apple itself disgusts them. These, 

 however, not being a sufficient substitute for the 

 juice of summer herbs, they must at this time be 

 supplied with water; but so placed that they cannot 

 overset it into their beds. I must not omit to re- 

 mark, that occasionally they are much pleased with 

 twigs of hawthorn, and of the common briar, eating 

 even the very wood when it is of considerable 

 thickness. 



"Bess, I have said, died young; Tiney lived to 

 be nine years old, and died at last, I have reason to 

 think, of some hurt in his loins by a fall ; Puss is 

 still living, and has just completed his tenth year, 

 discovering no signs of decay, nor even of age, 

 except that he is grown more discreet, and less 

 frolicsome than he was. I cannot conclude with- 

 out observing, that I have lately introduced a Dog 

 to his acquaintance a Spaniel that had never seen 

 a Hare, to a Hare that had never seen a Spaniel. I 

 did it with great caution ; but there was no real 

 need of it. Puss discovered no token of fear; 

 nor Marquis the least symptom of hostility. There 

 is, therefore, it should seem, no natural antipathy 



between Dog and Hare ; but the pursuit of the 



one 



