. The book of a naturalist [microform]. Sciences naturelles; Natural history; Animal behavior; Animaux. 56 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST without this glorious sport we should want horses for our cavalry, and men of the right kind on their backs, to face the Huns who would destroy us. Apart from all these questions and considera- tions, which humanitarians would laugh at, the fox is a being one cannot help loving. For he is, like man's servant and friend the dog, highly intelligent, and is to the good honest dog like the picturesque and predatory gipsy to the respectable member of the community. He
. The book of a naturalist [microform]. Sciences naturelles; Natural history; Animal behavior; Animaux. 56 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST without this glorious sport we should want horses for our cavalry, and men of the right kind on their backs, to face the Huns who would destroy us. Apart from all these questions and considera- tions, which humanitarians would laugh at, the fox is a being one cannot help loving. For he is, like man's servant and friend the dog, highly intelligent, and is to the good honest dog like the picturesque and predatory gipsy to the respectable member of the community. He is a rascal, if you like, but a handsome red rascal, with a sharp, clever face and a bushy tail, and good to meet in any green place. This feeling of admiration and friendliness for the fox is occasionally the cause of a quahn of conscience in even the most hardened old hunter. " By gad, he deserved to escape! " is a not uncommon ex- clamation in the field, or, " I wish we had been able to spare him 1 " or even, " It was really hardly fair to kill ; Here let me relate an old forgotten fox story— a hunting incident of about eighty years ago—and how it first came to be told. When J. Britton, a labourer's son in a small agricultural village in Wiltshire, and in later life the author of many big volumes on the " Beauties of England and Wales," came up to London to earn a precarious living as bottle-washer, newspaper office boy, and in various other ways, it was from the first his ambition to see himself in print, and eventually, because of his importimity, he was allowed by a kindly editor to write a paragraph relating some little incident of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922. London ; Toronto : Hodder and Sto
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