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MA.MMALIA. 



indifFerently provided with vision, for not only are its eyes of 

 feeble power, but by tbeir position on the sides of the head they 

 deprive the animal of the faculty of seeing directly before it. 

 Not unfrequently, therefore, it literally runs against those objects 

 it should avoid. 



yi^ 213. — French Hai'e-hunting. 



Although suspicious and timid to excess, the Hare is y^t 

 susceptible of being tamed, when it becomes very familiar. Dr. 

 Franklin had one which, during the winter, sat before the fire, 

 between a large Angora Cat and a Greyhound, with both of 

 which it lived on the best terms. It perched itself on the table 



