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the kind has taught me to hold the sportsman’s 
amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what 
amiable creatures he persecutes ; of what gratitude 
they are capable ; how cheerful they are in their 
spirits ; what enjoyment they have of life ; and that, 
impressed as they seem with a peculiar dread of 
man, it is only because man gives them peculiar 
cause for it. 
One of Mr. Cowper’s hares died young, another 
lived to be nine years old, and the last, which was 
living in May 1784, when this account was sent 
to the press, had just completed his tenth year: — 
u I cannot conclude,” continues our author, “ with- 
out observing, that I have lately introduced a dog 
to his acquaintance ; a spaniel who had never seen 
a hare, to a hare that had never seen a spaniel. I 
did it with great caution, but there was no real 
need of it. Puss discovered no token of fear, nor 
Marquis the least symptom of hostility. There is 
therefore, it should seem, no natural antipathy be- 
tween dog and hare, but the pursuit of the one oc- 
casions the flight of the other, and the dog pursues 
because he is trained to it : they eat bread at the 
same time out of the same hand, and are in all re- 
spects sociable and friendly.” 
It appears, from this gentleman’s account, that 
they have no ill scent belonging to them ; that they 
are indefatigably nice in keeping themselves clean ; 
and that for this purpose Nature has furnished them 
with a brush under each foot. 
Mr. Cowper has the following remarks respecting 
