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follows, that even under such untoward circumstances they 

 might, if needed, be reared without difficulty. 



"On the 1st of June, 1828," says M. Jennische, "I 

 killed a female hare; and as the shots went through her 

 heart and lungs, she died on the spot. Without giving the 

 dogs their regular due that is, the head and entrails 

 I carried her home, a distance of upwards of two 

 thousand feet, and there caused her to be opened; when, 

 although her legs were stiff, and her whole body all but 

 cold, two young ones were found alive in her womb. And 

 what is more singular still, they lived for three days after- 

 wards. As I looked at my watch when the hare was shot, 

 as also when she was opened, I can vouch for the fact, 

 that a young hare can live in the dead mother for seventeen 

 minutes at the very least." 



Dogs and cats, when deprived of their own young, oc- 

 casionally display, we know, extraordinary affection even 

 towards the offspring of animals, with which they are in 

 the habit of living in a constant state of enmity. An 

 instance of this kind is related bv M. Wetterdal. 



" During a hunt that took place at the beginning of this 

 month (June, 1831)," says that gentleman, " after that the 

 hare was killed, and, according to custom, opened, it was 

 found to be a female, which, had it lived, would soon have 

 littered, the young ones being very lively. The most of these 

 were thrown to the dogs, who, with the exception of a bitch 

 which had recently pupped, devoured them most greedily. But 

 she, on the contrary, was very careful of the one that fell 

 to her share, for she laid herself down by its side, caressed it, 

 and licked it all over, by which means it was in a very short 

 time altogether dry, and appeared to have revived somewhat. 



