A hunted hare is betrayed by farmyard animals

An exhausted hare chased by hounds is betrayed by farmyard animals. Horse, cow, and sheep refuse to help. Hare and many friends. Illustration of a fable by English poet John Gay. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811

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