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An Arctic Hare.

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AN Arc-tic Hare we now be-hold.     The hair, you will ob-serve, is white;     But if you think the Hare is old,     You will be ver-y far from right.     The Hare is young, and yet the hair     Grew white in but a sin-gle night.     Why, then it must have been a scare     That turned this Hare. No; 't was not fright     (Al-though such cases are well known);     I fear that once a-gain you're wrong.     Know then, that in the Arc-tic Zone     A sin-gle night is six months long.

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