Hand press; 7 pages; Designed and illustrated by Shirley Russell Ernst with hand lettered initials by Fred Ernst. Printed by Myron and Shirley Ernst with hand letterd initials by Fred Ernst. One of 107 hand-printed on a Washington hand press at the University of Iowa. Account Of The Treatment Of His Hares Signed by Shirley Russell Ernst. At this time Cowper was emerging, still shattered, from fifteen months of insanity, and he was glad, he tells us, "of any thing that would engage my attention without fatiguing it. In the management of such an animal, and in the attempt to tame it, I should find just that sort of employment which my case required. " 2 Soon he had two more hares. How the hares felt about being kept and managed, Cowper seems not to have worried. Young hares can sometimes be trained to be affectionate, but they cannot be domesticated. Cowpers hares were captives and would run away if they had the chance. But Cowpers conscience as a keeper of hares (and wild birds in cag