DR. D. G. THOMSON’S NOTES ON A TAME HARE. 54I 
I am glad to say it was for no such reason I. or rather my 
wife, undertook the upbringing and taming of our Hare, but 
it arose from the fact that on August 17, 1904, two Leverets 
were brought to us from a potato field. They were considered 
to be three or four days old ; they each had a star on the 
forehead, said to be a sign that they came from a litter of 
three ; this is unusual, for unlike the Rabbit, one is the usual 
litter. The Leveret eventually reared had a cut on the right 
shoulder. 
Considerable ingenuity and patience was required to feed 
them, they would not lap or suck from a saucer, but seemed 
to get some sustenance from sucking a pledget of lint soaked 
in sweetened cows’ milk. The mouth seemed proportionately 
extremely small, it was impossible to get anything in at the 
front of the mouth, the teeth overlapping and fitting so 
closely so that everything had to be inserted at the side. 
Smearing the fur with milk was tried, but the only satisfactory 
way was by a toy feeding bottle. The very sharp teeth, 
however, bit through the rubber teat at once, and this could 
only be prevented by covering it with muslin, chamois leather 
could not be kept sweet ; the Leverets were extremely dainty 
atxl particular as to the bottle and the sweetened milk, and 
as much and more care had to be taken as to cleanliness, 
temperature, any smell about the hands of the feeder, etc., as 
for any human baby. About this time one of the two escaped, 
all I will say about him was that he was always much the 
wilder and more difficult of the two to feed, and I will confine 
my remarks to the one eventually reared. 
The first week it was fed every three hours, the second 
week every four hours, and subsequently twice a day, it 
being pretty well known that Hares leave their young all day 
hidden up while they go about foraging. It was a very 
pretty sight to see him take his bottle, which it always sup- 
ported in his front paws. If the milk had been boiled or was 
the least turned nothing would induce him to touch it. 
When five weeks old he weighed i£ lbs. He was a most 
charming little creature, compact, firm, yet soft to the touch, 
with his varying shades of brown fur, his black tipped ears 
