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amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they 

 are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what 

 enjoyment they have of life, and that impressed as they 

 seem with a pieculiar dread of man, it is only because 

 man gives them peculiar cause for it. 



" Bess, I have said, died young ; Tiney lived to be 

 nine years old, and died at last, I have reason to think, 

 of some hurt in his loins by a fall j Puss is still living, 

 and has just completed his tenth year, discovering no 

 signs of decay, nor even of age, except that he is grown 

 more discreet and less frolicksome than he was. I can- 

 not conclude without observing, that I have lately in- 

 troduced a dog to his acquaintance ; a spaniel that had 

 never seen a hare, to a hare that had never seen a 

 spaniel. I did it with great caution, but there was no 

 real need of it. Puss discovered no token of fear, nor 

 Marquis the least symptom of hostility. There is, 

 therefore, it should seem, no natural antipathy between 

 dog and hare ; but the pursuit of the one occasions the 

 flight of the other, and the dog pursues because he is 

 trained to it ; they eat bread at the same time out of 

 the same hand, and are, in all respects, sociable and 

 friendly. Puss died of old age, when she was within a 

 month of her twelfth year. 



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