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Donald and the caddies—ran!—"Losh preserve us!" exclaimed Tibby, and all the Tibbies came out and—ran? In short, the flying cavalcade continued to increase, until, dogs included, the aggregate hunters amounted to at least a thousand souls. The unfortunate rabbit was, of course, doomed to destruction, and suffered bestial execution in Queen-street gardens, at the hands of several merciless dogs. Now had the object of pursuit been a witch on a broomstick, or Michael Scott on a horned stirk, we should not in that case have ridiculed curiosity, or blamed a laudable zeal in the chase, but to see a whole host of Modern Athenians persecuting to the death, and glorying in the martyrdom of a poor rabbit, says little indeed for the boasted anti-barbarous feelings of the age.
Dog pursued by a Hare.
On a Sunday while two men, apparently of the true poaching character, were traversing the fields in the neighbourhood with a pointer dog, and amusing themselves with hunting corn creacs, in place of attending the church, the dog in one of his perambulations happened to start a hare in a field on the farm of Nithsdale, known in that place by the name of the witch. Puss, in place of standing off, as is usual with her kind, boldly faced her foe. The dog not being accustomed to this way of proceeding, made
