02 Quadrupeds. 
during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from 
his fellows that they might not molest him, (for, like 
many other wild animals, they persecute one of their 
own species that is sick,) and by constant care, and try- 
ing him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect 
health. No creature could be more grateful than my 
patient after his recovery, a sentiment which he most 
significantly expressed by licking my hand, first the 
back of it, then the palm, then every finger separately, 
then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave 
no part of it unsaluted ; a ceremony which he never 
performed but once again upon a similar occasion. 
" Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my 
custom to carry him always after breakfast into the 
garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves 
of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud, till 
evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a 
favourite repast. I had not long habituated him to this 
taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the 
return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would 
invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, 
and bv a look of such expression as it was not possible 
to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately 
succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his 
teeth, and pull at it with all his force. Thus Puss 
might be said to be perfectly tamed, the shyness of his 
nature was done away, and, on the whole, it was visible, 
by many symptoms, which I have not room to enume- 
rate, that, he was happier in human society than when 
shut up with his natural companions." 
Hares are included in the list of animals called game, 
and are hunted with greyhounds, which is called cours- 
ing : and also by packs of dogs called harriers and 
beagles. There are white Hares in the northern 
regions, the change in colour being the effect of cold. 
