QUADRUPEDS. 



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knows, to his cost, its predilection for poultry ; and 

 smaller birds and quadrupeds fall victims to his 

 hunger when the larger fail. The cunning of the 

 fox is proverbial, and so also its odour ; and Pennant 

 says that it is a great admirer of its bushy tail, with 

 which it frequently amuses and exercises itself by 

 running in circles to catch it, and in cold weather 

 wraps it round its nose. 



THE FOX. 



Charles Waterton writes of this animal : "Common 

 opinion seems to concur in attributing to the fox an 

 extraordinary amount of cunning < as cunning as a 

 fox/ still I am not prepared to concede this prero- 

 gative to the fox alone, as I am acquainted with 

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