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feet of the animal. The Fox made a leap and caught a lamb 

 and started off with it for its den on the Creek hill; the men 

 began to yell and they frightened the Fox so it dropped the 

 lamb but it was crushed so it died. 



Mr. J. E. Hodel, of Allegheny county, says that he and Jas. 

 Henderson blamed a Fox for stealing their poultry; they 

 sought for her den and dug her out. It was an old she Fox 

 and they found several bushels of bones of lambs, pigs, ducks, 

 geese, turkeys in an ante-chamtoer or dining room, by side of 

 den. 



Mr. Geo. Murphy, farmer, Armstrong county, tells me that 

 several years ago a drover with sheep and lambs was passing 

 his place and the lambs gave out and were left there a day; 

 during that time a large Fox paid them a visit, caught and 

 killed one, and then perched itself on the fence to bask in the 

 sunshine. He went to get a gun to kill it but when he came 

 back it had taken its prey and left. Not long- after a sow had 

 a litter of pigs In the woods; he heard them making a noise 

 one day and went to see what was the matter. A big fight was 

 on between the old sow and the Fox; the Fox would run at 

 the sow like a dog, and then the sow would run at the Fox to 

 drive it away from the pigs that were huddled in the nest; this 

 was repeated several times until the Fox got the sow real mad 

 and she made at the Fox and run it several yards from the 

 pigs. The Fox then, quick as speed would let it, bounded 

 round past the sow into the nest, grabbed a pig in its mouth 

 and was gone before the sow could get back to the nest. He 

 had to take the .cow and pigs home to keep the rest from be- 

 ing stolen. 



Mr. Thos. Stroup, farmer, Armstrong county, had four lamibs 

 taken in one week by Foxes. The lambs were one week old. 



Mr. Samuel Reddick, farmer, Armstrong county, had a sow 

 with a litter of pigs in the woods near house in a rail pen. A 

 Fox or Foxes, made nightly visits to the pen and took seven 

 pigs and the sow became so frantic and enraged that she tore 

 the rail pen down to get at the intruder. The pigs were a 

 week old. 



Mr. Thos. Jack, farmer, says there is nearly a cart load of 

 bones of all kinds of small animals at some Fox dens along 

 the river hill near Logansport. None of the above gentlemen 

 ever heard of Foxes attacking calves or killing them. 



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