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THE HARE. 
skip or hop, and can jump very well: its fore legs 
are not so long as its hind ones, so that it can run 
up a hill with more ease than down one. It is very- 
full of play when it is dusk, and will jump up and 
down, and leap over any turf heap, or low bush, as 
gay as can be. The Hare eats most of its food 
when it is dusk : in the day time it lies flat down 
with its eyes wide open, and its ears back ; it lies 
for the most part in a tuft of fern, or by a bush, 
and its nest is made in some bush or fern tuft ; we 
call the spot that it lies in, its ''form." The Hare 
I saw when I was on the gate sat up on its hind 
legs to wash its face with its fore paws; when it 
had done this, it ate some of the oats that grew 
near, and ran up and down on the turf, and gave a 
kick with its hind feet, as if in fun: just as it did 
this, it saw me ; this made it stop and look up at 
me, and then it ran back into the wood, and I saw 
no more of it, but I dare say it came back as soon 
as I was gone. 
