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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: above, within, beside, now at some distance off, and now hard by,
and now midway between."
The couching hare[17] constructs her form for the most part in
sheltered spots during cold weather and in shady thickets during the
hot season, but in spring and autumn on ground exposed to the sun. Not
so the running[18] animal, for the simple reason that she is scared
out of her wits by the hounds.[19]
[17] "The form-frequenting hare."
[18] "Her roving congener," i.e. the hunted hare that squats. The
distinction drawn is between the form chosen by the hare for her
own comfort, and her squatting-place to escape the hounds when
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