FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



unless measures were taken to prevent him. It was 

 his affectionate disposition that caused me at last to 

 part with him ; for not wanting his company, one 

 day when I was going out I left him in one of our 

 rooms with food and other comforts. On my re- 

 turn, after having been absent for about three hours, 

 I found he had nearly gnawed through the bottom 

 part of a door : in a very short time he would have 

 been able to get out, to go and see where his friend 

 had gone to. 



On and about the wealds of Surrey and Sussex, 

 fourteen to sixteen years ago, on some estates rabbits 

 were bred in the warrens for their skins alone. They 

 were wild ones ; the rustics said that they were called 

 silver-grey rabbits, and that cloaks were made from 

 their skins for the ladies. 



The wild rabbit can be found in all localities suit- 

 able to him — any wild spot that can give enough 

 nourishment for a furze-bush will keep a rabbit. He 

 is a playful creature, now here, now there ; suddenly 

 coming to a dead stop, sitting up and listening, and 

 looking round, then just as suddenly starting off 

 to play again. The same conditions that affect 

 the hare affect the rabbit — locality and food. 



