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Show An Intelligent Fox. One of the stalkers in' the deer-forest here,writes a correspondent from Scotland to the St. James Gazette, has a young fox which be caught when quite a cub,and which he keeps chained to a kennel near his cottage. The other day he gave "the creature a dead crow, thinking hemight like the amusement of eating itj but rev-nard, rev-nard, after careful consideration, thought the bird's condition rather called for a ueceui, ounai, ana, tnerelore, he dug with his forepa'ws a large enough hole in front of his kennel, and when finished, put the bird into it, laying it on its back with its claws in the air. The stalker (who was watching the animal) saw him then scrape the loose earth over the bird so as to quite cover its bodv; but the legs still stuck up in the air. These legs seemed annoy him a great deal, and he tried to press them down with his nose. Failing in this, and after evidently turning the matter over in his mind, he bit theles off, laid thm flat beside th bird, and then covered everything over with earth. I think this is about as intelligent a pieee of reasoning a I have ever heard of in an animal. |
