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indifferently provided with vision, for not only are its eyes of 
feeble power, but by their position on the sides of the head they 
deprive the animal of the faculty of seeing directly before it. 
Not unfrequently, therefore, it literally runs against those objects 
it should avoid. 
Fig 213.— French Hare-hunting. 
Although suspicious and timid to excess, the Hare is yet 
susceptible of being tamed, when it becomes very familiar. Hr. 
Franklin had one which, during the winter, sat before the fire, 
between a large Angora Cat and a Greyhound, with both of 
which it lived on the best terms. It perched itself on the table 
