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shortest time be granted her for free respiration, or any other de- 

 mand of nature, she renews her course with redoubled speed. 



Tlie Fox is taken neither by snares nor nets — for, with Wonderful 

 cunning, he detects the one, and breaks the meshes of the other. — 

 Packs of hounds pursue him ; but their victoiy over him is not 

 bloodless. 



