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THE belief that the fox rids himself of fleas by the device to which Prof. Hughes has directed attention in NATURE is a long-established one. This is shown by the following passage from Allan Ramsay's “Gentle Shepherd”, which appeared in the year 1725:— “As fast as flaes skip to the tate o woo, Whilk slee tod lowrie hauds without his mow, When he to drown them and his hips to cool, In summer days slides backwards in a pool.”
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MELDRUM, A. The Fox and the Fleas. Nature 86, 211 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086211f0
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