168 THE OPEN BOOK OF NATURE 
are holding themselves up are waiting to be fertilized. 
As soon as they have secured all the service they 
require from the insects, they too will drop their 
heads. The bees seem to know this habit of the 
clover, and they make for the fresh flowers, not 
needing to spend any time upon fruitless visits. 
T call that a clever arrangement, do not you ? 
Rabbits! They don’t like the look of us, and 
are scuttling to their holes as fast as their legs 
will carry them. I’m sorry they won’t stay to be 
photographed. I have heard it.said that the white 
underneath a rabbit’s tail—that white which the 
animal displays as it runs—is a danger signal. 
When the white flag appears, the whole batch runs 
after it, displaying white flags for stray relations to 
see. It does seem from the way in which rabbit- 
scuttle to their holes, as it were by common arranges 
ment, that there is truth in the idea. How can you 
tell the difference between a Rabbit and a Hare ? 
Well, the Rabbit lives in a burrow and has its young 
ones there ; the Hare does not make a burrow, but 
rests in what is called a “form,” which is simply 
a bed in a tuft of grass, and it makes a nest for its 
young in a hollow on the surface of a field. Hares 
are not so gregarious as Rabbits, and their hind-legs 
are much longer in relation to their fore-legs. If 
you have once seen a Hare running, and remember 
how a Rabbit runs, you could never mistake the 
one for the other. 
At last we are at the quarry, a delightful place 
where one can find shelter from any wind that blows ; 
and it is a splendid hunting-ground'for the naturalist. 
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