The Springfield Fox 



So after a couple more dashes across the glade 

 he ventured within a few feet of the really watch- 

 ful Vix, who sprang to her feet and pinned him 

 in a twinkling. 



" And the little ones picked the bones e-oh." 



Thus the rudiments of their education were 



laid, and afterward as they grew stronger they 



were taken farther afield to begin the higher 



branches of trailing and scenting. 



For each kind of prey they were taught a way 

 to hunt, for every animal has some great strength 

 or it could not live, and some great weakness 

 or the others could not live. The squirrel's 

 weakness was foolish curiosity ; the fox's that 

 he can't climb a tree. And the training of the 

 little foxes was all shaped to take advantage of 

 the weakness of the other creatures and to make 

 up for their own by defter play where they are 



strong. 



From their parents they learned the chief 

 axioms of the fox world. How, is not easy 

 to say. But that they learned this in company 

 with their parents was clear. Here are some 

 that foxes taught me, without saying a word :— 



Never sleep on your straight track. 



>Wthe Little ones fucKcd his Bones e-oh- 



