8 SEPTEMBER 1900, Page 15

A METEOROLOGICAL RABBIT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SrR,—Recently I spent a holiday in Unst, the northmost of the Shetland Islands, and went to see the Muckle Flugga lighthouse, which stands on a rocky islet about a mile from the north point of Unst. The lighthouse keepers told me that for nine years they had a tame rabbit living on the rock beside them. It had three holes on different parts of the islet; over which it roamed at pleasure. The keepers said that when they saw the rabbit going to one particular hole they had learned that they might prepare for a south-west gale. Have any of your readers noticed that rabbits are . susceptible to coming changes of weather and in any way prepare for them, as the Muckle Flugga rabbit appears to