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distances, of which numerous instances are on 

 record. 



Some years ago a vixen and five cubs 

 were dug out at Penny Hill Park, near 

 Bagshot, and after a few days the six were 

 sent away and put down in an earth on 

 Bramshill Common, quite eight or nine miles 

 distant. The next night the vixen brought 

 two of them (they were about as large as 

 hares) back to an earth in the forest 

 between Broadmoor and the Royal Military 

 College where I found them the following 

 morning. Seeing the cubs had come into 

 the earth in a hurry (as there was no attempt 

 to draw it out, and it was full of leaves), 

 and the only other litter in the neighbourhood 

 not having moved, I went that evening to 

 watch, and a dog fox came up to the earth 

 at dusk, and sat with the cubs for a minute 

 or two, but no vixen turned up, which is 

 most unusual, as the vixen almost invariably 

 comes up at dusk, and the little cubs, sitting at 

 the earth after the dog had left, looked for 

 her in vain, and I was rather afraid some- 

 thing must have happened to her. The 

 next evening the vixen came up at the 



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