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Following in the train of the domestic animals the hare fur- 
nishes an intermediate link between the same and the true fere 
nature. 
HARES AND MUSIC, 
One Sunday evening five choristers were walking on the banks 
of the river Mersey,in England. Being somewhat tired, they sat 
down and began to sing an anthem. The field where they sat 
had a wood at its termination. While they were singing a hare 
issued from this wood, came with rapidity toward the place where 
they were sitting, and made a dead stand in the open field. She 
seemed to enjoy the harmony of the music, and turned her head 
frequently, as if listening. When they stopped she turned 
slowly toward the wood. When she had nearly reached the end 
of the field they again commenced an anthem, at which the hare 
turned around and ran swiftly back to within the same distance 
as before, where she listened with apparent rapture till they had 
finished. She then bent her way toward the forest with a slow 
pace, and disappeared.” 
SEALS AND MUSIC. 
Mr. Laing, in his account of a voyage to Spitzbergen, mentions 
that the son of the master of the vessel in which he sailed, who 
was fond of playing on the violin, never failed to have a numerous 
auditory when in the seas frequented by seals, and they have been 
seen to follow a ship for miles when any person was playing on 
deck. 
HYENAS AND MUSIC. 
Sparman furnishes the following story: “ One night at a feast 
near the Cape a trumpeter who had got himself well filled with 
liquor, was carried out of doors in order to cool and sober him. 
The scent of him soon attracted a spotted hyena, which threw 
him on his back and carried him away to Sable Mountain, think- 
ing him a corpse and consequently a fair prize." In the meantime 
our drunken musician awoke, sufficiently sensible to know the 
danger of his situation and to sound his alarm with his 
