CHAPTER III. 



THE FOX CROSSED-FOX FOX-COLONY EXPERIMENTS RESULTS CROSS 

 BETWEEN DOG AND FOX CUBS REARED BY A CAT MATERNAL TENDER- 

 NESS COURAGE CUNNING HOW HE COUNTERFEITS DEATH GETS RID 

 OF FLEAS OUSTS THE BADGER CATCHES SEA FOWL BEGUILES DUCKS 

 CHEATS THE FISHERMAN CIRCUMVENTS RATS LAUGHS AT THE SOW 

 FEEDS AT THE ENEMY'S EXPENSE TAKES HIS REVENGE TURNS 

 PAINTER. 



FOXES were common in my vicinity, as is also the case 

 throughout the length and breadth of Scandinavia. Though 

 it may sound strange to the ears of English sportsmen, I 

 occasionally, when in pursuit of capercali, or black game, 

 shot those animals ; but it must be remembered that in 

 Sweden the fox is only looked upon as vermin. They were 

 in all instances of the common kind the Cam's Vulpes of 

 Linnaeus ; for though the Arctic-fox (Cam's Lag opus, Linn.), 

 which so abounds in the more alpine regions of the penin- 

 sula, is occasionally met with in the very south of Sweden, 

 he never came in my way. 



On the authority of Nilsson, it was stated in my former 

 work, that the black-fox the Renard noir of Cuvier, and 



