From Fox's Earth 



opinion. If John Colquhoun could revisit 

 scenes he knew and loved so well, it wouli 

 interesting to hear what he had to say. N 

 has happened since his day to make it only 

 probable that the specimens are, to say the 1 

 of it, doubtful. 



The rush for grouse moors set in. The 

 bition for big bags reached the acute st 

 Decades passed of steady merciless killing-oi 

 " vermin." In the annals of wild life, if eve: 

 take a more generous view of wild creati 

 these may yet come to be known as the yeai 

 the persecution. Of that more anon. Such are 

 conditions under which increase is possible 

 survival likely. Plainly the assertion of the 

 appearance of the wild cat in numbers asks 

 careful inquiry, and, perhaps, some other 

 planation. It is of the nature of resurrection, 

 these are not days of faith. 



The state of the wild cat in the wood is c 

 plicated by the presence of a tame cat in 

 house. In so far, the case is singular air 

 creatures of prey and peculiarly interesting, 

 domestic cat of the keeper, or crofter, going 

 of a night as cats are wont to do, especially v< 

 there is caterwauling in the surrounding wil< 

 met one of its kindred, nor were they so far a 

 that they should not mate. 



This must have been going on for a very '. 

 time, since domestic cats are not a thin^ 



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