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so paralysed with fear that she crouched and my 

 youngest uncle, then quite a boy, caught her. 



James Conlon, when he used to tell the story, 

 declares that he immediately said the hare was 

 not right. My uncle Bill, with a boy's love of stray 

 animals decided to keep the hare, which lay in his 

 arms without a struggle. He carried her to one 

 of the attics, a long low room, which had then 

 two little squat windows looking out on to the 

 yard. Here he put her with bran and cabbages 

 and doubtless other foods dear to hares and left 

 her. The windows were shut and he locked the 

 door. He slept in the room underneath, and going 

 in there with my father, the two remarked that 

 the hare was very restless as they could hear her 

 patter-patter up and down. 



Towards evening they were both out in the yard 

 and suddenly my father called out and pointed 

 up to the hare which was sitting outside the window 

 on the sill. Up flew my uncle to find her crouched 

 safely in the room and the windows shut as he 

 had left them. 



No more was thought of it until next morning 

 when the two boys and Conlon were again in the 

 yards, talking of their mistake. " I tell ye she is 

 not right," said Conlon. " God save us, look 

 agin." 



The three of them saw it. Missis Hare crouched 

 on the window-sill. This time they were startled. 

 Telling the other two to watch outside my uncle 



