COCK-TAIL'S STORY 



T is known, I believe, 

 that half-bred animals 

 do not reproduce their 

 kind, and if it were 

 otherwise innumerable 

 would be such kinds. 

 My mother's father was 

 a fox. Her mother 

 was a well-bred terrier in colour much hke your 

 own. She belonged to a man who lived near 

 Harborough, in I^eicestershire, and was valuable 

 to him for her extraordinary talent in kiUing 

 rats and mice, as well as for the use which 

 he occasionally made of her in poaching at night. 

 Wishing to procure a mixed breed between her and 

 a fox, he took her one night, at a particular period 

 of the spring, to a certain spot in a wood which 

 he knew to be much frequented by foxes, and 

 having fastened her against a tree, left her there 



