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HARES.
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Cowper’s three pet Hares are perpetuated by
his own muse, which threw a charm over everything it touched. He represents them as amiable
and interesting. One would not expect animals
so proverbially timid and defenceless to fight with
a courage so indomitable as to yield only with
life. Yet Mr. Waterton has described in his own
graphic manner, a battle of two Hares, which
took place before his own eyes; which was continued till one died upon the field, the conqueror
continuing to strike his prostrate adversary, when
incapable of further resistance, with a pertinacious
malice and fury.” [1]
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- ↑ Zoologist, i. 211.
