LETTER XXXIV. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, May yt, 1776. 



... admorunt ubera 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 dispatched and buried. 

 The hare was soon lost, and supposed to be gone the way of most 

 fondlings, to be killed by some dog or cat However, in about a 



* Letter XXIV. 



