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ALMOST HUMAN 
trying to make himself wake up and see things as they really were 
instead of as his imagination conjured them. When he discovered that 
no amount of nose-rubbing could change the optical delusion, he gave a 
dozen jumps around the cage, stopping every time at the same corner 
to take another look at the queer-shaped visitor. It took Brownie a 
Common or Garden Folk, 
good while to get reconciled to the company of the newcomer, but finally 
he got used to the oddity and then decided to patronise when he could 
not totally ignore it. The strange thing is that the odd-looking hare, 
or hybrid, whichever it is, seems to feel its limitations acutely, and is as 
really humble as Uriah Heep pretended to be. 
