A "CHEEKY" FOX.
For cool impudence match him if you can. [ have known a dog; fox, when the vixen had the care of a family, enter the yard of the keeper's house, take one of his game henS from under his living-room window, march off with it across the road and to his home, give it to his family, and then come back for another. A pointer was in the yard at the time chained to his kennel. Driven off at this ? econd visit, he coolly recrossed the road to the turf, squatted on his haunches there and looked over at the yard and the game hens used for hatching out the pheasants' eggs. It was too much for the keeper to put up with. Slipping a cartridge into his gun, he swung it up to his shoulder, and let drive at the fox, saying ' There's notice to quit, you thund'rin' sweep !' Then did Master Reynard play some extraordinary antics. First he jumped off the ground several times in the most lively manner, then he cuffed his ears vigorously with his fore feet, gave a bit of a yelp, and bolted away at top speed. His skin is thick, and what would knock other things over would not cripple him
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 5
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210A "CHEEKY" FOX. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 5
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