Show a THE TEE CUNNING FOX an animal that Is foil of life and resources ue n Is X ever brer on an ur the alert md and tand lm his HI tendon cl ciao ze Is la in truth troth a mrry merry bt how few people arnow what as an interesting te chap the fox is said a naturalist ur alist recently they know him only by reputation and that as a a chicken thief which ha heis is bat Bu thellas be has lots lota of points I 1 tell you A merry sly dog is reynard all summer hentes he aves in luxurious ease roalin roaming 9 the woods and sauntering by the pearly brooks or basking in the noonday sun ile he loves lovea fish and going down to the stream he waits till he spies aples a 6 plump trout its over in a a twinkling A leap a snap and off he trots with his hia juicy morsel A stupid crawfish snoozes by his hole near the wates edge reynard drops his hii tail in the water and tickles him hira with it the A ii i i A ii i i angered crustacean comes out of fils hiding place and la is seized and crushed armor and all when velen the ripening corn la Is ready to drop and tho the luscious I 1 fruits have reached their maturity i and all nature is ri ripening fullness then master fodis fox LM in clover timid rabbits prick up their ears and run unconscious of danger along the hillside the quails skulk noiselessly in the wheat stubble birds pour forth their notes of praise abid he catches itches them all re he loves fruits stealthily he be steals steaks into orchards where apples and plump pears tempt and in the vineyard he be fairly revolt revels in his cubs grow fat and saucy he shows them how to pilfer honey and when the birs busy y bees have laid up 4 winter store he crawls to the hives near the garden fence and jumping u up to the small email opening licks the sweat drops drop with pure pare out come the stinging humming honey makers and settle like a ball on his thick pelt but he doubles up in a twinkling i an and d rolling overt over and av over er crushes crashes them by the score and eats cats them as a i relish cunning Cun nice no animal beats him look at his brainy head ilia his delicate ears broad below to catch every sound from the highest note of the shrill warbler to the low crooning of t the he cricket or the storm or the fevered pants of the prancing hounds and tapering so sharply to a point thit that they thegean can shape themselves them selic to ever every v wave of air air that makes th the tiniest rustle ot of noise note the ci crafty acty calculation and foresight of the low 10 vv flat brow what a nose I 1 now kow full fall of resolute purpose pointing straight forward and anon turning up with concentrated cent rated malice and scorn the eye deep set a regular robbers rob bera eye lack i ing the soft beauty odthe of the timid doer deer I 1 or the fascinating glare of the cats cata yet it trembles with modest humility or glares with murderous rage rac 11 flashing ashing fire and ven vengeance g ealce energy and self bell glares with murderous rage rac 11 flashing ashing fire and ven vengeance g ealce energy and self bell control speak in the thin cynical lips and the mouth obeis from ear to ear he ac C caa leap crawl ran and swim with the velocity of lightning a and P d hit his wiry body is carried so BO noiselessly along that sea a tin 1 cato at 1001 echo beho no response even among the dead leaves of the forest his walk la Is tre treacherous be us his hia glance sinister minister seizing a lonch bunch oi of grain in ILIA hl month he will swim into the midst of a flock of ducks and ands elze the eit for a dinner he is fora voracious cious is ic reynard when hunger pressed and gaunt and lean from starvation hell not refuse ser er bents and toads and moles and rata he behas has been known to attack and kill idu young calves and lambs lambe and it if the seashore is near will revel in teri and shellfish A group of rabbits are faid ing in a clover patch he hejl crawl along nibbling the juicy rowe flowers r s until near enough to make I 1 a grab hell stalk a bird with his hia hind logs lega dragging behind him until near enough to spring how farmers dread his inroy inroads in the poultry yard fasten the yard up tight and he will burrow a winding passage into the ground beneath and suddenly appear among the drowsy chickens and stupid geese whose shrill shaft and alarmed cries chiea arouse amuse the the farmer from his bed to sally forth finding all safe then the fox will aneal back and pack away with the plumpest plum pest pullet or the fattest goose goom february la is th the mouth month when reynard goes swo shooing and a wide range he takes flirting and toying with every vixen that chances in his way it is fully sixty days before madame clears the rubbish all out of her burrow and brings forth fobb her young from three to a six ix at ai a litter it will be bd fully a month before the sharp nosed cubs begin to play and gambol about the doorway of their home homa perhaps ft will w ill be at the root of an old tree beneath a ledge of rocks or in the hollow hollova of a dead tree trunk or a burrow with se veral several entrances in the sand or loam telltale tell tale chicken bones bonea and feathers find and furs strewn about the entrance I 1 speak of many a hen roost robbed or of foolish rabbits and overconfident over confident confide nt grouse that tha have furnished food for the ever hungry cubs cuba the mother fox faithfully feeds feed slier her young and boldly steals to support them she sh knows known as an all sportsmen know that the hounds will not follow her while she has a 6 family depending upon her A merry devil may care life does the fox lead indeed it may be a short one for traps and snares sn ares are many hunters are alert and ake scent of hound is keen but reynard rollicks and roisters roosters roi ani and plays the boldorac bold freebooter amid it am all |