34 NATURAL HISTORY 



parent-hind rushed out of the brake, and, 

 taking a vast spring with all her feet 

 close together, pitched upon the neck of 

 the dog, and brjoke it short in two. 



Another temptation to idleness and 

 sporting, was a number of rabbits, which 

 possessed all the hillocks and dry places ; 

 but these being inconvenient to the 

 huntsmen, on account of their burrows^ 

 when they came to take away the deer, 

 they permitted the country-people to 

 destroy them all. 



Such forests and wastes, when their al- 

 lurements to irregularities are removed, 

 are of considerable service to neighbour- 

 hoods that verge upon them, by furnish- 

 ing them with peat and turf for their 

 firing ; with fuel for the burning their 

 lime ; and with ashes for their grasses ; 

 and by maintaining their geese and their 

 stock of young cattle at little or no 

 expense. 



The manor farm of the parish oiG real- 

 ham has an admitted claim, I see (by an 

 old record taken from the Tower of Lon- 



