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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 133, 13 March 1872, Page 3

Billings on the Fox.—We make the subjoined extract from a lengthy aud elaborate discussion of the fox, by Josh Billings : “ The fox has no moral honesty, but lie liaz got a grate supply of politikal houcsty. If auotlier fox iu his parish wants a pliat goose, lie will work hard to get the goose for him. aud then clean the meat all opli from the outskirts ov the goose for petty fogging tlie case, aud give him the bones, and tell kiz politikal friend, with a smile iu the left corner of his eye, that ‘ everything iz lovely and the goose liaugs high.’ Foxes come out of the ground, but whether they are made out ov dirt I kant swarc with much certaiuty. They cum out of the ground through the instrumentality of a hole, but whether the hole begins at the surface and raus into the mountain, or whether it begins in the mountain apd runs tew the surface don’t make a kussed bit ov difference. But philosophers have argued about this hole business for years. .Sum ov them say it runs iu, aud sum ov them arc willing to be darned if it. duz ; and right here wc can sec the amazing difference between tlicir logick and the logick of the fox. While they stand fitting at the mouth ov the hole, the fox is stealing tlicir ducks and gozlius. Foxes are like cuuniug meu—they hare but few brains, and but a small p’acc tew keep them in, but what few they have got arc like aDgle worms in hot water—full of anxiety aud inizery.’*