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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