90 COMBAT BETWIXT TWO HARES. 



whilst the other continued its attacks upon it, 

 with the fury of a little demon. Seeing that 

 the fight was over, we approached the scene of 

 action, — the conqueror hare retiring as we 

 drew near. 



I took up the fallen combatant just as it was 

 breathing its last. Both its sides had been 

 completely bared of fur, and large patches of 

 down had been torn from its back and belly. 

 It was a well-conditioned buck hare, weighing, 

 I should suppose, some seven or eight pounds. 



Mr. Carr's groom was standing by the stable 

 door, as I came up with the hare in my hand. 

 Here, John, said I, take this to your own house, 

 and get your wife to dress it for your family ; 

 — it is none the worse for being killed on 

 Easter Sunday : — and then I told him how it 

 had come into my possession. He thanked me 

 kindly for it ; and I learnt from Mr. Carr at 

 the end of the week, that John's wife had made 

 it into a pie, with the addition of a few rashers 

 of bacon ; — that it proved to be uncommonly 

 good ; — and that they would all remember, for 

 many years to come, the fight betwixt the two 

 hares in the park at Walton Hall, on Easter 

 Sunday afternoon, the 16th of April, 1843. 



