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in terror of the invader, to a corner of the room. The fox
was taken alive.”
The Arctic The Arctic Fox which is of a beautiful white
Fox. colour is found, according to Captain James Ross,
in the highest northern latitudes, even in the winter. In the
late autumn the younger generation make their way south
and congregate in the neighbourhood of Hudson’s Bay,
returning north in the early spring of the following year. They
are gregarious, living in companies in burrows in sandy places.
Wild Dogs. Wild dogs abound in various parts of the world,
of which the Dingos of Australia, the Dholes of India and
the Aguaras of South America are examples. The wild dogs
of the East are familiar to all readers of Eastern travels. A
writer in the Times newspaper describes the dogs of Con-
stantinople, as “omnipresent, lawless, yet perfectly harmless
dogs,” which perform valuable but ill requited service as
scavengers of the city. He says:—“In shape, in counte-
nance, in language, in their bandy legs, pointed noses, pricked
up ears, dirty yellow coats, and bushy tails, they could be
hunted as foxes in Gloucestershire. They are,” he continues,
“up and doing from sunset to sunrise, and enjoy the refresh-
ment of well-earned, profound sleep almost throughout the
day. They are not only homeless and masterless but have
also a sovereign contempt for bed orshelter. There is a time
it would seem, when sleep comes upon them—all of them—
like sudden death; when all squat down, coil themselves up,
nose to tail, wherever they chance to be—on the footpath,
in the carriage way, in the gutter—and there lie in the
sunshine, in the pelting rain, yellow bundles, hardly distin-
guishable from the mud. The Constantinople dog never
learns to wag his tail; he never makes up, never looks up
to a human being, never encourages or even notices men’s
advances. He is not exactly sullen, or cowed, or mistrust-
ful; he is simply cold and distant as an Englishman is said
to be when not introduced.”