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of intellect, with its great eyes ; and although an adept 

 at doubling, and able to make the best of a mountain or 

 country-life, must feel like a country lad in Glasgow when 

 it comes within range of the iron horse. Who has not 

 seen a shrewd country farmer able to hold his own at 

 kirk or market when within range of the breeze from Ben 

 Nevis, yet behave like a cow before a conveyance on a 

 public road so soon as he finds himself obliged to cross 

 the street at the Trongate or the Jamaica Street Bridge. 

 He is not sharp enough for the city-bred inhabitant. 

 The same seems to be the case with the hare and rabbit. 

 The hare cannot make up its mind to advance or retire, 

 and probably ends in that " middle course " in which we 

 are told is safety, but which before an express train 

 means disaster. The rabbit, on the other hand, is rarely 

 killed on the line, and this might seem the more remark- 

 able, as they throng the stony and sandy embankments 

 along the railway, and slip through the confining wires to 

 their matutinal and vesper meals among the railway 

 grazings. But they have their wits about them, and no 

 doubt have always the one clear, definite idea to their 

 minds in danger, to make if possible a bee-line to their 

 holes. Certain it is they manage to exist in multitudes 

 on the verge of the destroyer's path, while the hares seem 

 to be unable to visit the same grazings without imminent 

 danger. So that the question of intellect after all is one 

 between the occasional visitor and the habitue, who has 

 been bred with greater experience if not with greater 

 intelligence. We suspect the rabbits have both. 



Under a rocky scaur in the Pass of Brander, we 

 observe one little lamb lying, with its mother grazing 

 near, on ground where scarce one would expect conies 

 to find pasture and provender ; and if there is any 



