Echoes of the Hunting Horn 



fortunate if he recovers the fox's line two or three 

 fields ahead. 



All this entails delay, during which Mr. Fox is 

 probably well beyond the reach of his pursuers. Another 

 victory for Reynard due, not so much to any marked 

 cleverness on his part, as to the intervention of circum- 

 stances which were all in his favour. 



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