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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: hair serves as a protection,[21] being thick and of a downy texture.
When awake it keeps on blinking its eyelids,[22] but when asleep the
eyelids remain wide open and motionless, and the eyes rigidly fixed;
during sleep it moves its nostrils frequently, if awake less often.
[20] Pollux, v. 72.
[21] Or, "as a waterproof."
[22] So Pollux, ib.
When the earth is bursting with new verdure,[23] fields and farm-lands
rather than mountains are their habitat.[24] When tracked by the
huntsman their habit is everywhere to await approach, except only in
case of some excessive scare during the night, in which case they will
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