29 JANUARY 1898, Page 31

FASCINATION BY A FOX.

rTo THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECT•TOR."1 SIR,—I see Truth has cast doubts on the accuracy of the account of a fox fascinating a pheasant by circling beneath its perch, described by your correspondent in the Spectator of January 1st. Mr. Meyer, of Little Laver Hall, near Ongar, Essex, told me many years ago a parallel story. He saw a fox, which had got into his ben-roost, circling round and round under a cock, which would unquestionably have fallen off his perch into the fox's jaws, had not my friend shown himself and frightened the beast away.—I am, Sir, Fec., H. J. LISTER. Shelthorpe, Sandown, Isle of Wight, January 11th.