58 THE FOX 



Turned down at Euston, he made his way home. Of 

 course, having once done this he could easily do it 

 again, for the memory of the lower animals is at once 

 minute and retentive. 



Another instance is that of a vixen who was 

 marked and turned down before a pack of hounds. 

 She went straight back to the earth from which she 

 had been taken, was recaptured and brought back, 

 and four times she returned. At last she was killed 

 by the hounds near her earth. 



There is another matter connected with the mind 

 of the fox which is of considerable interest. What 

 does a fox feel while he is being hunted ? There are 

 two views about this. One is reached by an ex- 

 aggeration of the perfectly sound principle that the 

 minds of the lower animals and of our own are made 

 of the same stuff — the same in kind but differing in 

 degree. 



Therefore many people think they have but to 

 imagine what their own sensations would be if they 

 were hunted by fierce and untiring foes. But this is 

 a mistake. It is quite true the mind-stuff of all sen- 

 tient beings is probably the same, but the quality and 

 quantity vary enormously. To assume that there is 

 a sameness between the mind of man and that of the 

 lower animals is the only possible theory by which 



