THE ASTUTE FOX.
"Perhaps the smartest thing I ever : v|j|| saw done by a fox was with the Pytchr ley," a writer in "Country Life" "I. was watching hounds on foot, -ftjj witnessed the following incident. Ajvjjftl fox, found in the Hemplow; went away- >'v'S over Crick Canal ("by a bridge). Stand-^; ; || ing on the bank of the canal, I saw 'gone away. . Hounds and wont away 'full cry , and very fast, but"; ( fi!%i| long before the last of tho crowd horsemen was across the bridge, a ripple 'Wtss in the still waters of the canal caught" my eye. There was tho fox quktlj-;j|)|| swimming back again, having doubled ;-\.fc|S on his tracks! Hounds flashed on, in true Midland style were cast on and ; :|*g on. In due course they picked u P:?le another fosl" ■ . .• •: ; ■ •.; '•':'■ •■.■' l i.:;'t"-^g
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 6
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137THE ASTUTE FOX. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 6
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