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Among the former, or quadrupeds, the visitor will particularly remark the cynocephali, or dog-headed baboons, in bronze and stone; various lions; cats, with bored ears; jackals; shrew mice bearing the winged world; bulls; gazelles; a kneeling ibex; a ram walking with the conical cap on its head; a sow with pigs, in bronze; a quadruped with a viper's head; sphinxes, one covered with a lotus; and various models of hares, ram's heads, &c.

All the hares and ptarmigans of his new district would behold him coming from afar and keep well out of his way, while he, poor creature, would never be able to spot them at all among the white snow-fields. He would starve for want of prey, at the very time when the white fox, his neighbour, was stealing unperceived with stealthy tread upon the hares and ptarmigans.

He intended every child in it to be a model just as the young Gradgrinds were all models. There were five young Gradgrinds, and they were models every one. They had been lectured at, from their tenderest years; coursed, like little hares. Almost as soon as they could run alone, they had been made to run to the lecture-room.

"I suppose game is very plenty with you?" "Plenty, man! I believe there's mair hares than sheep on my farm; and for the moor-fawl, or the gray-fowl, they lie as thick as doos in a dooket Did ye ever shoot a black-cock, man?" "Really I had never even the pleasure to see one, except in the museum at Keswick."

"Poaching; yes, I understand that killing hares and birds. Well, but why did you poach?" "Because father did." "Oh, well, I see; then, if you only did what your father did we must not blame his child; and so you come down here to go to sea?" "If I could not do better." "But you shall do better, my good boy.

It has no elephants, horses, asses, lions, bears, deer, foxes, nor hares. This island therefore, in a fine climate, capable of growing all the tropical productions in perfection, and excellently situated for trade, extends to about 200,000 square miles, or 128 millions of acres, yet is abandoned entirely to ignorant barbarians.

The colours of their plumage was handsome, not quite so sober as that of our partridge at home, and their size and shape was almost between that of a grouse and a partridge; Francolin, I've since heard they were. Two hares I just got a glimpse of, greyish in colour, and very thin-looking beasts.

Caleb related that his friend Shepherd Gathergood was a great fox-killer and, as with hares, he took them in a way of his own.

Do you, while receiving benefits from me and resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and unprofitable?" Some men underrate their best blessings. The Hares and the Frogs

The whole atmosphere of such a place savours of rabbits and hares and partridges. There may be no pheasant-rearing and comparatively little game of any kind, yet the place is, nevertheless, associated with sport with the gun. Ten to one there are guns, old and new, hanging up in the hall or the smoking-room, and perhaps fishing-rods too.