PREFACE 



Having frequently been asked to write some- 

 thing about the fox, I have at last attempted 

 to do so in the hope that the result of one's 

 personal observation and experience, after many 

 years' careful study of this little animal in his 

 native haunts, may prove, perhaps, of some 

 slight interest, not only to those who, like 

 myself, have his welfare so much at heart, but 

 to others to whom his habits ''at home" are 

 a sealed book. And if the following pages 

 should afford the latter a partial glimpse even 

 behind the scenes, and create an additional 

 interest in, and sympathy for, their subject, my 

 humble efforts will have been well repaid. 



Living as I have done for nearly twenty 

 years in the midst of the wild track of heath 

 and forest which extends for many miles on 

 every side round Camberley, I have luckily had 



