Creatures of the Night

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III.
THE CUB AND THE POLECAT.
The young fox's education, varied and thorough, steadily proceeded. Though the vixen-cubs were slightly quicker to learn, they were moreexcitable, and consequently did not benefit fully by each lesson. Vulpsoon began to hunt for his own sport and profit. In the meadow above thewood he would sit motionless, his eyes fixed on the ground, till thevoles came from their burrows to play beneath the grass-bents; then, with a quick rush, he would secure a victim directly i
...ts presence wasbetrayed by a waving stalk. With the same patience he would watch near arabbit warren, till one of the inhabitants, hopping out to the moundbefore her door, gave him the sure chance of a kill. But in thewheat-fields on the slope his methods were altogether different. Tocapture partridges required unusual cunning and skill, and suchimportance did the vixen attach to this branch of her field-craft, that, before initiating her youngsters into the sport of hunting these birdsat night, she instructed them diligently in the methods of following byscent, training them how to pursue the winding trail left by the larksthat fed at evening near their sleeping places, or by the corncrakesthat wandered babbling through the green wheat.

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