The FoxLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 238 pages |
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... refuge and the original earth would add up into a considerable journey . But the vixen is a most courage- ous and devoted mother , and instances are not at all uncommon of one having been seen in front of hounds carrying a cub in her ...
... refuge and the original earth would add up into a considerable journey . But the vixen is a most courage- ous and devoted mother , and instances are not at all uncommon of one having been seen in front of hounds carrying a cub in her ...
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... refuge to be sought in the moment of danger . I have known a litter bred in a small spinny to return thither when hard pressed from coverts many miles away . A litter of healthy young foxes scatters widely over the country , and its ...
... refuge to be sought in the moment of danger . I have known a litter bred in a small spinny to return thither when hard pressed from coverts many miles away . A litter of healthy young foxes scatters widely over the country , and its ...
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... refuge . Although foxes return to their earths when pressed , I am inclined to think that few of them till after their first breeding - season have any regular underground habitation , going to ground in drains and rabbit - holes when ...
... refuge . Although foxes return to their earths when pressed , I am inclined to think that few of them till after their first breeding - season have any regular underground habitation , going to ground in drains and rabbit - holes when ...
Page 38
... refuges , and it would probably astonish us if we could know how many lose their lives in drains . I have seen as many as six foxes dislodged from a drain , out of which they could not have escaped . I have heard of the remains of no ...
... refuges , and it would probably astonish us if we could know how many lose their lives in drains . I have seen as many as six foxes dislodged from a drain , out of which they could not have escaped . I have heard of the remains of no ...
Page 39
... refuge in drains or culverts . There is another use besides a refuge that foxes make of short drains : they run through them , thus causing great delays to their enemies . In the season of 1904-5 I saw a very clever ruse of this kind ...
... refuge in drains or culverts . There is another use besides a refuge that foxes make of short drains : they run through them , thus causing great delays to their enemies . In the season of 1904-5 I saw a very clever ruse of this kind ...
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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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