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not been broken. I was at a loss to understand how he had 

 become so impressed with the good deeds which he attributed 

 to Foxes, yet seemed to know nothing of their evil ways. 



■HOUNDS AND A BOB-TAILED HORSE. 



"Later on I found he had an interest in a pack of dogs, which 

 in winter season he followed with fancy dress, colored like the 

 British wore at the Battle of Brandywine where some of his 

 ancestors died; and he had a bob-tailed saddle horse, that 

 could run and jump the fences. When I was young we didn't 

 have such things, but times, and the ways of people, have 

 changed most remarkably. I sometimes think as I learn of 

 baneful results of many of these changes that it is well that 

 my eyes have grown dim, that my hands have lost their 

 cunning, my steps become tottery, and that soon I shall depart 

 this life and rest in peace, love and contentment with my God 

 above. Foxes now live unmolested on the farm and although 

 they often take chickens or ducks I never complain, as the 

 money value is small, probably not over five or ten dollars a 

 year from all Foxes, and the other kinds of poultry-catching 

 pests. When my good wife, who sleeps in the church yard over 

 the hills, and I began life ten dollars was considered a good 

 deal, but now it don't seemi to be valued by young people, par- 

 ticularly if some one else earns it, and gives it to them to 

 spend. A boy or girl rarely appreciates the true value of dol- 

 lars, unless they earn them by honest work. 



"T hope you will deal fully with the birds and animals, and 

 write books without a lot of big Latin names, so that our school 

 children can read them and know more about the true relations 

 that these creatures have in the broad field of nature. The 

 lack of proper information about insects, birds, animals and 

 plants is a source of much loss to those who engage in agricul- 

 ture. 



HOW HE BEHAVES ACROSS THE OCEAN. 



In the Old AYoikl Foxes appear to be just as bad as 

 they are ou tliis side of the Atlantic. Tlie European 

 Red Fox, eminent writers say, has no specific identity 

 from our Red Fox. To show how the Fox acts in other 

 lands the following- extracts are transcribed from Dr. 

 Brdim's Life of Animals: 



