OF SELBORNE. 



11 



LETTER XXXIV. 



TO THE SAME. 



DEAR SIR ; Selborne, May 9, 1776. 



« . admorunt ubera tigres/' 



We have remarked in a former letter how 

 much incongruous animals, in a lonely 

 state, may be attached to each other from 

 a spirit of sociality ; in this it may not be 

 amiss to recount a different motive which 

 has been known to create as strange a 

 fondness. 



My friend had a little helpless leveret 

 brought to him, which the servants fed 

 with milk in a spoon, and about the same 

 time his cat kittened, and the young were 

 dispatched and buried. The hare was soon 

 lost, and supposed to be gone the way of 

 most foundlings, to be killed by some dog 

 or cat. However, in about a fortnight, as 



