30 JULY 1932, Page 11

SHEEP AND FOXES.

A strange story of a fox is told me by the chance observer of the grim incident. A young lamb from a considerable flock strayed rather nearer than the rest to the edge of a wood, from which a vixen emerged and attacked the lamb, killing it, apparently, instantly. The ewe, looking up, galloped across and drove the vixen back, went up to her lamb, and finding it dead, as she seemed to discover almost at once, returned to her grazing. The vixen at once came out again and dragged its prey into the wood. Though the English foxes introduced long ago into Australia have left descendants which do great injury to the flocks, it is rare in England for any fox to attack such big game.

W. BEACli THOMAS.