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THE LIVING WORLD. 
The fox , like some other animals, has been known to fish successfully, 
using his tail as bait and line for the greedy, obstinate and tenacious crabs. 
Foxes generally go about in pairs and avail themselves of the benefit to be derived 
from co-operative effort. Such was the case when two gullies down the side of a 
precipitous and inaccessible hill were used by the rabbits and hares as a path¬ 
way to the valley below. Two foxes stationed themselves one at the end of one 
of the gullies and the other at some distance above. The former chased the 
rabbits up the gully and the latter sprang from its concealment and captured 
one of them. On another occasion 
the hunting fox allowed its victim to 
escape, whereupon the other fox fell 
upon its awkward assistant and pun¬ 
ished it soundly. The foxes are very 
considerate of their young, but the lat¬ 
ter are very ungrateful and, like spoiled 
children, forget past benefits in present 
desires. On one occasion a naturalist 
undertook to satisfy himself in regard 
to stories about the family discords 
of the fox. Concealing himself near 
its retreat, he was finally rewarded 
by seeing the fox appear with a goose 
which it had stolen, and lay it down 
on the ground while it went to call 
The man managed to secure the goose, and when the 
JACKAL. 
its children to dinner, 
happy family ap¬ 
peared, the mother 
hunted high and low 
for its marketing, 
and failing to find 
it, was set upon by 
her cubs and sub¬ 
mitted to being torn 
to pieces; a good 
story, but altogether 
improbable. 
The Indian 
Jackal (Cams au¬ 
reus) is an animal 
whose nightly howl¬ 
ing is as trouble¬ 
some as his vora¬ 
cious appetite and 
depredations upon 
the flocks and poultry. It quite frequently dances attendance upon the lion and 
possesses itself of the remains of the lion’s feasts. Still its patient cunning 
quite as often induces the jackal to hunt on its own account, in the vicinity of 
farms, and it most commonly gets its share of the farm produce. It also hunts 
after the tiger, relying upon getting possession of all that the tiger cannot 
WOLF AND YOUNG. 
