Hare today…
Mar 03, 2021
2 minutes
WHEN Vita Sackville-West wanted to invoke the timeless pastoralism of Britain in her novel The Edwardians, of 1930, what natural items did she list? She chose, of course, ‘the verdure of the trees, the hares and the deer’.
The brown hare is, indeed, an emblematic British in our trove of popular sayings, with ‘ran like the hare’ and ‘hare-brained’ for starters. Indeed, hares are truly fast, 40mph at full, elegant stretch. Poetry in motion. And when, in the month of March, they famously get up on their back legs and ‘box’, hares do seem a little demented, hence Lewis Carroll’s mad March Hare in .
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