"Twenty Hill Hollow 



eared hare, which stood erect at the door of his 

 burrow, staring his winged fellow mortal full 

 in the face. They were about ten feet apart. 

 Should the eagle attempt to snatch the hare, 

 he would instantly disappear in the ground. 

 Should long-ears, tired of inaction, venture to 

 skim the hill to some neighboring burrow, the 

 eagle would swoop above him and strike him 

 dead with a blow of his pinions, bear him to 

 some favorite rock table, satisfy his hunger, 

 wipe off all marks of grossness, and go again to 

 the sky. 



Since antelopes have been driven away, the 

 hare is the swiftest animal of the Hollow. 

 When chased by a dog he will not seek a bur- 

 row, as when the eagle wings in sight, but 

 skims wavily from hill to hill across connecting 

 curves, swift and effortless as a bird-shadow. 

 One that I measured was twelve inches in 

 height at the shoulders. His body was eighteen 

 inches, from nose-tip to. tail. His great ears 

 measured six and a half inches in length and 

 two in width. His ears — which, notwithstand- 



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