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Show B Y The Sliver Fox. HB 1 V I'lio silver fox Is really a black fox, HB i Instead, us some )crsous suppose, of be- H L.M ' lug almost white or n Biher gray. Tho HK J name Is given on account of tho pies- H . 1 J once of glistening white nnd grayish HB ' 1 i lnilrs which uppear among tho black. 'rjU In tuo better grades the long, silky HB'S, , brush has u tip of pure white. About HBiBF n quarter of a century ago the little HHHr nulinal, which weighs when full grown Vs ! only about twelve pounds, became al- Hf , most extinct. Ilccauso of the beauty HBt j of Its fur tho species was trapped tin- Hli' ! til almost tho last of them had dlsap- HHfi'lv pcarcd. For u long tlmo tho stnndanl Ml price offered by the Ilndsou Hay com- HMUS-, pnny for silver fox pelts wns around, PBM 1 $1,000, nnd the cffortH of the French pBl 8 Canadians, half breeds nnd Indian PBK fi trappers to obtain this sum, to them a 1" i fortune, .can bo better Imagined thnn1 j described. St. Louis l'ost-Dispatcli. |