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From here we can all see well how the hare runs for the field."

In very truth, the hare felt behind it the hunters and the pack;

it was making for the field; it stretched out behind it its ears

like two deer's horns; it showed like a long grey streak extended

above the ploughed land; beneath it its legs stuck out like four

rods; you would have said that it did not move them, but only

tapped the earth on the surface, like a swallow kissing the

water. Behind it was dust, behind the dust the dogs; from a

distance it seemed that the hare, the dust, and the dogs blended

into one body, as though some great serpent were winding over the

plain; the hare was the head, the dust in the rear was like a

dark blue neck, and the dogs seemed to form a restless double

tail.