"Now thyself hath lost both lop and top.

The middle brother ceased his lopping, and his eye went to the great banks that sheltered them about.

Sometimes a rabbit drops one ear completely, but raises the other so neatly horizontally as to constitute an ear-lop: this is superior to all others, except the perfect fall, which is so rarely to be met with, that those which are merely ear-lopped are considered as valuable rabbits, if well bred and with other good qualities.