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where he was soon overtaken as related, and proved to be 

 an old one of the native family of the Greys. 



The more mischievious red-skin stock, are imported 

 rogues of bad habits and dispositions, unredeemed by a 

 single virtue or useful quality. He is inimical to man, by 

 whom he is as cordially hated for his extensive depreda- 

 tions on the husbandman, not merely to satisfy the cravings 

 of hunger, but to gratify an inordinate love and thirst of 

 blood. He thus wantonly and cowardly sacrifices by 

 wholesale in the midnight hour, the unwarned and de- 

 fenceless, at roost. His destructive maraudings do not 

 end here, the tender lamb often becomes his prey, and 

 his destruction of game, rightfully the property of the 

 sportsman, is immense. Pheasants, partridges, their eggs 

 and their young, alike he destroys, whenever and where- 

 ever he can secure them. Even the stores of the indus- 

 trious bee, and the exquisite produce of the vine, are alike 

 sacrificed to his voracious appetite. 



The smaller animals of the wood or the field, detest 

 and avoid him, and all the wild birds of the air have the 

 same regard for him, that they have for the hawk. They 

 will hover over, dart at and pursue him, to his great an- 

 noyance. By this means the Hunter is often aroused to 

 watchfulness, and advised of Reynard's presence, or his 

 course. 



In short, a universal war is waged against this perni- 

 cious creature. Prowling in darkness or warily lurking 

 by day, he will sometimes audaciously secure his prey 



