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fire put out with water every night." The latter point is 

 important, as it shows the data of observation from which 

 the animal reasoned. 



The sagacity of the fox is proverbial. Numberless inci- 

 dents are on record showing the remarkable cunning of this 

 animal in procuring bait from traps without allowing himself 

 to be caught. A correspondent of Nature says: "Some 

 years since, while hunting in northern Michigan, I tried with 

 the aid of a professional trapper to entrap a fox which made 

 nightly visits to a spot where the entrails of a deer had been 

 thrown. Although we tried every expedient that suggested 

 itself to us we were unsuccessful, and, what seemed very sin- 

 gular, we always found the trap sprung. My companion 

 insisted that the animal dug beneath it, and putting his paw 

 beneath the jaw, pushed down the pan with safety to himself ; 

 but though the appearance seemed to confirm it, I could 

 hardly credit his explanation. This year, in another locality 

 of the same region, an old and experienced trapper assured 

 me of its correctness, and said in confirmation that he had 

 several times caught them, after they had made two or three 

 unsuccessful attempts to spring the trap, by the simple expe- 

 dient of setting it upside down, when of course the act of 

 undermining and touching the pan would bring the paw 

 within the grasp of the jaws." 



Nor is the fox's congener, the wolf, less strategic. The 

 following came under the notice of the Secretary to the Gov- 

 ernment of the Northwest Province : He saw two wolves 

 standing together, and shortly after noticing them was sur- 

 prised to see one of them lie down in a ditch, and the other 

 walk away over the open plain. He watched the latter, 

 which deliberately went to the far side of a herd of antelope 

 standing in the plain, and drove them, as a sheep dog would 

 a flock of sheep, to the very spot where his companion lay in 

 ambush. As the antelope crossed the ditch, the concealed 

 wolf jumped up, seized a doe, and was joined by his colleague. 



The emotional life of the dog is highly developed — more 



