lowing a school of minnows. Stepping 

 high and cautiously, he, from time to 

 time, suddenly jabbed his muzzle into 

 the water and brought up a fish from 

 two to three inches long, which he chew- 

 ed and swallowed with seeming satis- 

 faction. When he missed, which hap- 

 pened often, he repeated his impatient 

 " Yap, Yap" and moved up stream 

 where was another bunch of minnows. 



This was the first time I had ever seen 

 a fox fishing and I was intensely inter- 

 ested in his operations. About this time, 

 I heard a commotion in the bushes be- 

 hind me, and turned in time to see the 

 horns and white tail of a deer over the 

 tops of the bushes as he bounded along 

 down the runway. I heard him for a 

 full minute, still going strong down to- 

 ward the lake. 



Five minutes later Bige appeared, 

 coming down the path gently demand- 

 ing, "Why in time didn't you shoot 



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