A Shepherd's Life; Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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They get dazed, the men said, and could not save themselves. I was also told that rabbits were sometimes killed and, more frequently, hares. "I've had several hares from the line," one man told me. He said that he had seen a hare running before a train, and thought that in most cases the hare kept straight on until it was run down and killed. But not in every case, as he had actually seen one hare killed, and in this case the hare sat up and remained staring at the coming train until it was str...uck. It cannot be doubted, I think, that the cat is subject to this strange weakness. It is not a case of "losing its head" like a cyclist amidst the traffic in a thoroughfare, or of miscalculating the speed of a coming train and attempting too late to cross the line. The sight of the coming train paralyses its will, or hypnotizes it, and it cannot save itself. Now the dog, a less well-balanced animal than the cat and inferior in many ways, has no such failing and is killed by a train purely through blundering.
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