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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: if running one can call it. The action prints itself plainly on snow.
The tail is not conducive to swiftness of pace, being ill adapted by
its stumpiness to act as a rudder to direct the body. The animal has
to do this by means of one or other ear;[55] as may be seen, when she
is on the point of being caught by the hounds.[56] At that instant you
may see her drop and shoot out aslant one of her ears towards the
point of attack, and then, apparently throwing her full weight on that
pivot, turn sharp round and in a moment leave her assailants far
behind.
[55] So Ael. "N. A." xiii. 14.
[56] Pollux, v. 71. For punctuation, see Lenz ad loc. p. 25.
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