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that they don't depend more upon that which would 

 save them, their speeds 



" The reason is this," added Trimbush. *' Al- 

 though much faster than we are, and with power 

 of equal endurance, they cannot bear the heat of the 

 day as well as we can. It should be recollected also, 

 that we have rested the night before, and commence 

 our work with empty bellies in the morning ; but 

 the fox has been on the pad foraging for food when 

 we were asleep, and, perhaps, is gorged at the 

 moment we unkennel him. He, therefore, feels 

 himself in no condition for racing, and tries all his 

 cunning to elude us in preference to facing the open. 

 I don't know," continued he, " how the devil's own 

 regulates his meals ; but I fancy he must sup early, 

 and go to bed long before cock-crow." 



John Mills. 



Aha ! The Fox <:^ ^> ^c^ 



AHA the fox ! and after him they ran ; 

 And eke with staves many another man, 

 Ran Coll our dogge, and Talbot, and Gerlond, 

 And Malkin with her distaflFin her hand. 

 Ran cow and calf, and eke the veray hogges. 

 So fered were for berking of the dogges. 

 And shouting of the men and women eke. 

 They rounen so, hem thought her hertes broke. 



Chaucer. 



Shakespeare on Reynard o o 



FOR treason is but trusted like the fox, 

 Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up. 

 Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. 



/ Henry IV, V. 2, 9. 



