On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins' ruffet peel, And, when his juicy falads failed, Sliced carrot pleased him well. A Turkey carpet was his lawn, His frifking was at evening hours, But moft before approaching mowers, Or when a ftorm drew near. Light years and five round-rolling moons He thus faw fteal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, I kept him for his humour' fake, My heart of thoughts that made it ache, But now beneath his walnut shade He finds his long laft home, And waits, in fnug concealment laid, Till gentler Pufs fhall come. He, ftill more aged, feels the fhocks, And, partner once of Tiney's box, EPITAPHIUM ALTERUM. Hic etiam jacet, Pufs. Sifte paulifper, Qui præteriturus es, Nunc neque canis venaticus, Nec laqueus, Nec imbres nimii, Confecêre Tamen mortuus eft Et moriar ego. The following Account of the Treatment of bis Hares was inserted by Mr. Cowper in the Gentleman's Magazine, whence it is transcribed. In the year 1774, being much indifpofed both in mind and body, incapable of diverting myself either with company or books, and yet in a condition that made fome diverfion neceffary, 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, foon becoming weary of their charge, they readily confented that their father, who faw it pining and growing leaner every day, fhould offer it to my acceptance. I was willing enough to take the prisoner under my protection, perceiving that, in the management of fuch an animal, and in the attempt to tame it, I fhould find just that fort of employment which my cafe required. It was foon known among the neighbours that I was pleased with the prefent: and the confequence was, that in a fhort time I had as many leverets offered to me, as would have ftocked a paddock. I undertook the care of three, which it is neceffary that I should here diftinguifh by the names I gave them-Pufs, Tiney, and Befs. Notwithstanding the two feminine appellatives, I must inform you that they were all males. Immedidiately commencing carpenter, I built them houses to fleep in; each had a feparate apartment, fo contrived that their ordure would pass through the bottom of it ; an earthern pan placed under each received whatsoever fell, which being duly emptied and washed, they were thus kept perfectly sweet and clean. In the day-time they had the range of a hall, and at night retired each to his own bed, never intruding into that of another. Pufs grew prefently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise himself upon his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples. He would fuffer me to take him up and to carry him about in my arms, and has more than once fallen faft afleep upon my knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not moleft him (for, like many other wild animals, they perfecute one of their own species that is fick), and by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, reftored him to perfect health. No creature could be more grateful than my patient after his recovery; a fentiment which he most fignificantly expreffed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger feparately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of |