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Section hi. 

 THE FOXES, 



A COMIC FABLE OF THE INDIANS. 



The red fox and his kinfman the grey fox, entered into a treaty 

 to hunt together, and it was agreed they flaould divide their labours. 

 The grey fox was to provide for accommodation, and the red fox was 

 deftined for the chace. The red fox, knowing the country through 

 which they were to pafs, inftrufted his affociate in the following man- 

 ner. " As you proceed, you will obferve, after a fliort day's journey, 

 " a plain bounded by fome hills which lie towards the eaft ; there you are 

 *' to Hop for the night, make your encampment, and await my coming." 

 They then feparated, each purfuing his particular deftination. The red 

 fox, after a fuccefsful days hunting, repaired to the place of rendez- 

 vous, but miffing his companion, turned back to meet and bring him 

 forward. He found him after a long march, encamped at a fliort dif- 

 tance from the place of their departure, on the ice, in the midft of a 

 lake, in a fituation deftitute of wood, water and flicker. The grey fox 

 excufed himfelf by the difficulty of the country, which made the fliort 

 diftance appear confiderable ; the fnow concealing the ice, he took the 

 lake for a plain ; and the high banks to the eaftward, the only thing 

 like hills in fight, tallied with the direftions he had received. The red 

 fox fmiled at his Cmplicity, and the other promifed to be more atten- 

 tive for the future. " To-morrow night," fays the red fox, again in- 

 ft:rufting his companion, " we fliall take up our abode in a fnug wig- 

 " warn, in the midft of the forefl:, to the eafliward of the mountains, 



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of the black duck are probably not reforted to for this purpofe, as being a bird of ill 

 omen. The bird they moft defpife is the turkey-buzzard, of the eagle's fize, but utterly 

 unwarlike. 



