Show How It Started By JEAN NEWTON J Why Why I. I It Vixen IC itA HAVE It no difficulty In understanding under W WE Wm standing vixen lien to be a reference reference reference refer refer- ence to a shrew or scold However that the word Itself should hould be e the feminine form of fox will willIer per per- ls ba laps occasion some lome surprise to those of us ut who do not at first sight connect It t with the German Just why this word should be so 10 soused soused used metaphorically Is le difficult to torace trace race etymologically y I It II had Its Ita origin however bowl undoubtedly In the qualities of slyness and cleverness as possessed possessed pos pos- and practiced by some lome members of the fairer sex IleX and likened to that of ot ofa ota a female fox to e. lilt lUI nu |