“ Coursing one day a very large hare, I pitied my poor bitch, being big with pups, yet she would run as fast as ever. I could follow her on horseback only at a distance. At once I heard a cry as it were of a pack of hounds—but so weak and faint that I hardly knew what to make of it. Coming up, I was astonished. The hare had littered in running; the same had happened to my bitch in coursing...and there were just as many leverets as pups. ”

“ We took, the field, among several other reasons, with an intention to retrieve the character of the Russian arms, which had been blemished a little by Czar Peter's last campaign on the Pruth; and this we accomplished after several very fatiguing and glorious campaigns. Modesty forbids individuals to arrogate to themselves great successes or victories, the glory of which is generally engrosses by the commander. ”

“ The effects of activity and presence of mind.—A favourite hound pups while pursuing a hare; the hare also litters wile pursued by the hounds.—The consequence.—Presented with a famous horse by Count Przobossky, with which he performed extraordinary feats. ”