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most timorous : has large prominent eyes, placed backwards, 

 to see behind as it runs : these never closed : it sleeps with 

 them open : the ears moveable, and capable of direction to 

 every quarter : muscles of its body strong, and without fat : 

 hinder feet longer than the fore, on account of speed : per- 

 secuted by dogs, cats, weasels, and birds of prey : in a state 

 of engendering very early : females go with young thirty 

 days, and bring forth three or four at a time : has young of 

 different ages in her womb together : the young brought 

 forth with their eyes open : the dam suckles them twenty 

 days: food they are fond of: sleep or repose in their form 

 by day, and live only by night : the rutting season begins in 

 February : the male pursues and discovers the female by the 

 sagacity of its nose : the slightest breeze, or falling of a leaf, 

 disturbs their revels: they instantly fly off, each taking a 

 separate way : are more easily taken than the fox : a much 

 slower animal than they, and why : always choose to run up 

 hill, and why : have the sole of the foot furnished with hair, 

 and seem the only animals with hair on the inside of the 

 mouth : live seven or eight years, and come to perfection 

 in one year : females live longer : M. Buffon makes a doubt 

 of it : seldom heard to cry, except when seized or wounded : 

 their cry nearly like the squalling of a child : are easily 

 tamed : though never so young, regain their native freedom 

 at the first opportunity : have a good ear, and been taught 

 to beat the drum, dance to measure, and go through manual 

 exercise : make themselves a form where the colour of the 

 grass resembles that of their skin, open to the south in win- 

 ter, and to the north in summer : sore hunted, will start a 

 fresh hare, and squat in its form : some enter holes like the 

 rabbit, by hunters termed going to vault : as it tires, treads 

 heavier, and its scent is stronger : young hares tread heavier 

 than old : male makes doublings of greater compass than the 

 female: divided by hunters into mountain and measled 

 hares : mode of expression, ' the more you hunt, the more 

 hares you shall have,' and why : what animals persecute the 

 hare : its enemies so various, that it seldom reaches the short 

 term limited by nature : in countries near the North Pole, 

 they become white, and are often in great troops of four or 

 five hundred: their skins sold for less then seven shillings a 

 hundred : the fur known to form a considerable article in 

 the hat manufacture : found also entirely black, in much 

 less quantity than the former : some have been seen with 

 horns, but rarely : those in hot countries smaller than ours: 

 those in the Milanese the best in Europe : scarce a country 

 where not found, from the torrid zone to the polar circle : 

 natives of Guinea kill numbers at a time: in what manner : 

 the Jews, ancient Britons, and Mahometans, all considered 

 it as an unclean animal, and religiously abstained from it : 



