CHAPTER XV. 



CUBS, FOXES AND VIXENS. 



I AM now going to speak about preserving 

 foxes, breeding cubs, feeding young cubs, 

 keeping them at home, and as to treating the 

 vixen, with other matters. 



If you live with a gentlemen who is a fox 

 rearer, and will have foxes, do your best to 

 rear them, for one brace of foxes is more 

 to him than twenty brace of pheasants. I 

 speak from experience, as I once lived as keeper 

 with a real fox rearer at Thrupp Wood, on 

 the Littlecote Estate, Chilton, Wilts. You may 

 be very sure if you live with such a man, that 



