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Updated: June 26, 2025
When Tita and I went upstairs at night the small and gentle creature was grievously perplexed. "I cannot make it out," she said. "He is quite changed. What is the matter with him?" "You behold, madam, in that young man the moral effects of vulpicide. A demon has entered into him. You remember, in 'Der Freischutz, how " "Did you say vulpicide?" she asks, with a sweet smile.
Had Brock been able to ascertain the meaning of man's frequent visits to the neighbourhood of his dwelling, he would have sorely lamented the killing of the young foxes by the female badger. In the eyes of the Hunt, vulpicide was an unpardonable crime, whether committed by man or beast; and, when the dead fox-cubs were shown to the huntsman, he vowed vengeance on the slayer.
Imagine the feelings of an English squire, M.H. of his county, loving dogs and horses as some women love children, and regarding poaching and vulpicide as crimes almost as bad as murder imagine his feelings when his beautiful wife, grave and simple, should say at a hunt-dinner, "I do not like riding.
In Leicestershire he would be regarded as a hunting man, while in his own district he is known as a vulpicide, for Reynard is seldom, if ever, found in his coverts. One has only to live in the country, and pretend indifference about fox-hunting, to see the tricks which some farmers perform in order to prevent people from riding over their land.
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