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Rh 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&#59; 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.”