268 General Notes. 
Returning to my Illinois home, he was fastened by a light chain 
about fifteen feet long to a pine tree near the back door. Two 
small dry-goods boxes, placed one above the other, with a door in 
the same end of each, served as a two-story kennel, the doors facing 
the house affording ample opportunity for observation. Too young 
to eat readily, we taught him to drink milk, and gradually to take 
tender meat, his teeth being at this time only tiny points, weaker— 
relatively, than a puppy’s of similar age. He grew rapidly, and 
when feeding we held him in our laps, fondling him as a kitten, 
allowing him to lap and chew our fingers freely. Our shoulder 
came to be a favorite seat, and until too large, he liked a step still 
higher ; later, to put his fore feet up, then repeatedly to jump from 
our shoulders to the ground, as we sat upon the grass. He was 
equally at home in the house where he was given ‘entire liberty. 
It was now time that he and the cat, with her two kits, should eat 
and drink together and from the same dish. Kitty, accustomed to 
having various animals introduced into her hdéme for observation 
studies, quietly accepted the inevitable. | While drinking milk, of 
which there was always plenty, no jealousy for individual rights 
appeared, but as the fox grew faster than the kits, and the plate of 
meat sometimes seemed meager for four, he would eat as fast as 
possible, snuff a little, as much as to say, “go away,”—give 
another snuff, and not being heeded, would gently pick up one of 
the kittens by the nape of its neck, and carrying it off a little ways, 
set it down, then rush back to the dish, to find the kit there also. 
This being repeated two or three times, with no satisfactory 
results, as if out of patience, he would grow more decided an 
inclined to hurt them a little, making them ery, but they were never 
conquered. When he had had enough, and a little comparatively 
meats upon his disposition and found him, after a few days on raw 
diet, inclined to lap heavier, and chew our fingers harder, but we 
never feared being bitten. ; 
He greatly enjoyed playing with the kittens but they, being 0 — 
much smaller and weaker, would tire more quickly and start off to 
play by themselves. An artifice was at hand to coax them back. 
Going nearly to the end of his chain, and facing the inside of the 
circle, though with a keen eye to the outside, he would quietly wag 
his tail back and forth in the grass. This motion was too great @ 
