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DOMESTICATION OF HARES.
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credit of Mr. Thunberg, beg to state, that some years since
we purchased at a sale of curiosities, imported from Holland,
a glove formed from this very plant; and that we have in
our cabinet the nest of a bird, which is formed by dividing
the piant, and fitting it to its own proportions, forming a very
secure and warm hybernaculum. J. Laskey.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS IN THE
DOMESTICATION OF HARES.
[By the late W. Cowper, Esq/]
In the year 1774, being much indisposed both in mind and
body, incapable of diverting myself either with company 01
books, and yet in a condition that made some diversion ne-
cessary, I was glad of any thing that would engage my
attention without fatiguing it. The children of a neighbour
of mine had a leveret given them for a plaything; it was at
that time about three months old. Understanding better how
to tease the poor creature than to feed it, and soon becoming
weary of their charge, they readily consented that their
father, who saw it pining and growing leaner every day,
should offer it to my acceptance. I was willing enough
to take the prisoner under ray protection, perceiving that, in
the management of such an animal, and in the attempt to
tame it, I should find just that sort of employment which
my case required. It was soon known among the neigh-
bours that I was pleased with the present; and the conse-
quence was, that in a short time I had as many leverets
offered to me as would have stocked a paddock. 1 under-
took the care of three, which it is necessary that I should
here distinguish by the names I gave them—Puss, Tiney,
and Bess. Notwithstanding the two feminine appellatives,
I must inform you that they were all males. Immediately
commencing carpenter, I built them houses to sleep in ;
each had a separate apartpient, so contrived that their ordure
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credit of Mr. Thunberg, beg to state, that some years since
we purchased at a sale of curiosities, imported from Holland,
a glove formed from this very plant; and that we have in
our cabinet the nest of a bird, which is formed by dividing
the piant, and fitting it to its own proportions, forming a very
secure and warm hybernaculum. J. Laskey.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS IN THE
DOMESTICATION OF HARES.
[By the late W. Cowper, Esq/]
In the year 1774, being much indisposed both in mind and
body, incapable of diverting myself either with company 01
books, and yet in a condition that made some diversion ne-
cessary, I was glad of any thing that would engage my
attention without fatiguing it. The children of a neighbour
of mine had a leveret given them for a plaything; it was at
that time about three months old. Understanding better how
to tease the poor creature than to feed it, and soon becoming
weary of their charge, they readily consented that their
father, who saw it pining and growing leaner every day,
should offer it to my acceptance. I was willing enough
to take the prisoner under ray protection, perceiving that, in
the management of such an animal, and in the attempt to
tame it, I should find just that sort of employment which
my case required. It was soon known among the neigh-
bours that I was pleased with the present; and the conse-
quence was, that in a short time I had as many leverets
offered to me as would have stocked a paddock. 1 under-
took the care of three, which it is necessary that I should
here distinguish by the names I gave them—Puss, Tiney,
and Bess. Notwithstanding the two feminine appellatives,
I must inform you that they were all males. Immediately
commencing carpenter, I built them houses to sleep in ;
each had a separate apartpient, so contrived that their ordure