Photographing a Wild Fox 1 1 9 



of concealment on the way to the house. I watched 

 until the middle of the afternoon and saw nothing 

 more of the old fox. 



The next day I repeated the experiment, and 

 watched particularly for the appearance of the dog 

 in the valley. I found that he lost the trail in about 

 the same place near the creek. Some time before 

 this I saw the fox coming up the creek near the den, 

 which he passed, never so much as turning his head, 

 and I soon lost sight of him among the ferns and low 

 bushes. The dog worked the trail for some time 

 longer, and finally gave it up and went to the house. 



By this time I thoroughly understood the action 

 of the dog. Now I must watch for the fox. On 

 the third day, as the fox and the dog started as before, 

 I watched carefully the place where the dog had lost the 

 trail. Two hours later I saw the fox, on his return 

 trip, on the top of a stone wall at the place where the 

 hound lost the trail each time. The wall at this 

 point was so near the creek that the fox could jump 

 from the wall to the bed of the stream. The banks 

 were low for some distance, and I could see him in 

 the shallow water making his way towards the den. 

 As the banks became higher he was lost to view, and I 

 turned the glass upon the creek, which was fully ex- 

 posed near the den. In a little while he passed this 



