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kirby’s wonderful museum.
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 respects sociable and friendly.
I should not do complete justice to my subject, did I not
add, that they have no ill scent belonging to them ; that they
are indefatigably nice in keeping themselves clean, for which
purpose nature has furnished them with a brush under each
foot; and that they are never infested by any vermin.
May 28, 1784.
In addition to the account of Mr. Cowper, many instances
of the tractability of hares are recorded ; and it is well known
to many persons now livi.rg, that at Sadler’s Wells, its
greatest attraction was the exhibition of hares, at that place
of amusement, in beating the drums, and a variety of tricks,
that occupied a length of time. And so lately as the years
1817 and 1818, a Frenchman went about the streets of Lon-
don, and its vicinity, with two hares, who, at the word of
command, would beat a drum, load a pistol, and ram it
down, by taking the end of the ram-rod in its mouth, and
striking it several blows, afterwards put its foot to the trigger,
and tire it off.
-*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*-
LOSS OF THE SYLVAN.
MIRACULOUS escape.
From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle, of Nov. 18, 1818.
" In our paper of Friday, we stated the loss of the
Sjlvan, of Cork, Captain Pugh, from Liverpool for Cork,
on the Sovereign’s Islands, near the harbour of Kinsale, and
some circumstances connected therewith; amongst others,
the loss of three passengers, two of whom, a man and his
wife, were believed to be natives or inhabitants of Youghal,
and the third a young person, whose name was unknown.
kirby’s wonderful museum.
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 respects sociable and friendly.
I should not do complete justice to my subject, did I not
add, that they have no ill scent belonging to them ; that they
are indefatigably nice in keeping themselves clean, for which
purpose nature has furnished them with a brush under each
foot; and that they are never infested by any vermin.
May 28, 1784.
In addition to the account of Mr. Cowper, many instances
of the tractability of hares are recorded ; and it is well known
to many persons now livi.rg, that at Sadler’s Wells, its
greatest attraction was the exhibition of hares, at that place
of amusement, in beating the drums, and a variety of tricks,
that occupied a length of time. And so lately as the years
1817 and 1818, a Frenchman went about the streets of Lon-
don, and its vicinity, with two hares, who, at the word of
command, would beat a drum, load a pistol, and ram it
down, by taking the end of the ram-rod in its mouth, and
striking it several blows, afterwards put its foot to the trigger,
and tire it off.
-*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*-
LOSS OF THE SYLVAN.
MIRACULOUS escape.
From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle, of Nov. 18, 1818.
" In our paper of Friday, we stated the loss of the
Sjlvan, of Cork, Captain Pugh, from Liverpool for Cork,
on the Sovereign’s Islands, near the harbour of Kinsale, and
some circumstances connected therewith; amongst others,
the loss of three passengers, two of whom, a man and his
wife, were believed to be natives or inhabitants of Youghal,
and the third a young person, whose name was unknown.