8o Game and Foxes. 



securing sufficient, but it will be well to provide 

 variety if possible. On many estates young rooks / 

 will be available during May, and there is nothing f 

 both vixen and cubs appreciate more. There is no 

 need to take rooks to the earth, for a vixen is fond 

 of visiting a rookery, hoping that some of the 

 nestlings may have fallen, and is clever enough to 

 know there is a greater chance of this on a rough, 

 windy night, when the slight boughs on which the 

 nests are built rock to and fro. The young rooks 

 intended for the cubs need only be shot and left 

 lying. It is the wiser course to handle food placed 

 out for the vixen as little as possible, and she will 

 then take it all the more freely. Rabbits should 

 be snared, trapped, or netted, and as far as 

 possible pegged down alive for her. Readers are 

 particularly warned against using the gun too ; 

 much when procuring food for cubs, because the 

 shots embedded in the rabbits, or whatever is 

 killed, are swallowed, and in several instances cubs 

 have been known to die of lead poisoning solely 

 from continually eating food which had been shot. 

 If fed daily on stuff thus procured, enough lead to 

 cause this trouble is soon taken into their systems. 1 

 Few readers may know that a fox dearly loves a \ 

 stoat or weasel, so if any are trapped they may 

 serve a better purpose given to the cubs instead ' 



