The FoxLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 238 pages |
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... keeper , What are his teeth and jaw for then , and why is he so often caught in traps baited with wild rabbits ? Possibly the rabbit is the key to the mystery , and the alliance between the fox and the badger is strictly on the do ut ...
... keeper , What are his teeth and jaw for then , and why is he so often caught in traps baited with wild rabbits ? Possibly the rabbit is the key to the mystery , and the alliance between the fox and the badger is strictly on the do ut ...
Page 19
... keeper often , digs out and destroys what he considers to be a superfluous litter . Thus the vixen has many dangers to fear . Like all animals of prey , the fox instinctively conceals itself , and it requires no effort to believe that ...
... keeper often , digs out and destroys what he considers to be a superfluous litter . Thus the vixen has many dangers to fear . Like all animals of prey , the fox instinctively conceals itself , and it requires no effort to believe that ...
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... keeper to put a dead rabbit for her . The first night she did not touch it . It was then lightly buried ; she immediately dug it up and afterwards came regularly for her meal . One evening , going down to feed the terriers rather later ...
... keeper to put a dead rabbit for her . The first night she did not touch it . It was then lightly buried ; she immediately dug it up and afterwards came regularly for her meal . One evening , going down to feed the terriers rather later ...
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... little country - nor have they need to . The keeper , in perfect good faith that he is a true preserver , because he has killed no foxes , shoots rabbits for the vixen and cubs , and practically keeps THE EDUCATION OF THE FOX 29.
... little country - nor have they need to . The keeper , in perfect good faith that he is a true preserver , because he has killed no foxes , shoots rabbits for the vixen and cubs , and practically keeps THE EDUCATION OF THE FOX 29.
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... keeper looks out for them , but they are gone . A fox always works back to his own lair , whether that be above ground or below . Thus many a covert - owner has the credit for foxes he has not , because one or two have turned up in the ...
... keeper looks out for them , but they are gone . A fox always works back to his own lair , whether that be above ground or below . Thus many a covert - owner has the credit for foxes he has not , because one or two have turned up in the ...
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A. E. T. WATSON advantage Æsop ALEXANDER INNES SHAND Archibald Thorburn Arctic fox artificial coverts artificial earth badger bear-baiting beast birds brush Canida CHAPTER chase clever cloth colour common fox Crown 8vo cubs cunning danger dog fox doubt DUKE OF BEAUFORT enemies English fox escape fable fabulists fact favourite field fox's foxhounds foxhunting gallop GEORGE SAINTSBURY GERALD LASCELLES gorse gorse coverts ground habits half-bound hare haunts hedgerow hunted fox huntsman Illustrations India instances intelligence jackal keeper kennel killed Leicestershire litter live Master of Hounds natural history never nose odour old fox once pack of hounds perhaps pheasants Plates prey probably rabbits race red fox refuge Reynard scent season seen seldom shooting SHOOTING THE DUCK sport sportsman spring story tail terrier Text tiger Tom Smith tree turn vixen whipper-in wild foxes wolf wood young fox
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