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There was a large reward offered indeed, there were two rewards offered, a larger and a lesser one for the greatest speed, not in one race alone, but to such as had got on fastest throughout the year. "I got the highest prize," said the hare.
There is another sketch by the same poet: "As when th' impatient greyhound, slipped from far, Bounds o'er the glade to course the fearful hare, She in her speed does all her safety lay, And he with double speed pursues the prey; O'erruns her at the sitting turn, but licks His chaps in vain, yet blows upon the flix; She seeks the shelter, which the neighbouring covert gives, And, gaining it, she doubts if yet she lives."
Well, one morning only a few weeks before Devereux and Toole together had looked in on some such business upon his reverence a little suddenly and found him eating a hare! by all the gods, it was hare-pie in the middle of Lent! It was at breakfast.
At sunrise the next morning he was picking his way through the palm- like fern and thick underbrush of the pine forest, starting the hare from its form, and awakening a querulous protest from a few dissipated crows, who had evidently been making a night of it, and so came to the wooded ridge where he had once found M'liss.
Then he wished to hear the conversation of the beasts and all the creatures of the fields and the wood and the mountain top came into his house. The hare used to come in early in the morning. He was always the first visitor and he never remained long, and always while he was there he kept running up and down the house, and he generally ended his visit by jumping through the open window.
Such close economy was to be expected from a millionaire, travelling incognito; what was more surprising was that, when the cab stopped before a door in Hare Court and Mr. Van Torp received his valise from the roof of the vehicle, he gave the man half-a-crown, and said it was 'all right.
In autumn the leaves of the pear-tree reddened, and afterwards the ivy over the entrance to the ice-house flowered; then in the cold months of early spring the birds came for the ivy-berries. The winding paths traced by a hare in spring as he roams over an arable field show that he must cover a mile within a furlong.
"Being an active sort of man in his way, though well over fifty, and given to wandering on the mountains above Calenzana, he had come one day upon a wild sheep with a lamb running at her heels. The mother made off, but the lamb sat and squatted like a hare; and so Antonio took him up and carried him home.
In a short time he married a pretty young wife, and lived with her in great peace and happiness. One day when he was out hunting a hare sprang up at his feet, and ran for some way in front of him in the open field. The hunter pursued it hotly for some time, and at last shot it dead.
Therefore, instead of grumbling, you should be very much obliged to me. Don't you understand? I preserved hares, so that without me you would never have been a hare. Isn't that right, Mr. Mr. I am sorry I have forgotten your name," he added, turning towards me. "Mahatma," I said. "Oh! yes, I remember it now Mr. ah Mr. Hatter."
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