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Priscilla Wakefield

Juvenile Anecdotes: The Hare

[1795] Priscilla Wakefield, "The Hare," in Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children, vol. 1 [First Edition: 1795] 2nd ed. (London, 1798; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

To exchange the liberty of her native fields for a place of close confinement; to be obliged to eat the food that was brought to her, instead of cropping the sweet flowers according to her choice; to be debarred from the society of her kindred hares, and to be immured in perfect solitude; and, above all, to live in the continual dread of destruction, (for no animal is so timid as a hare,) must have been a very painful transition. (57-8)