The Springfield Fox 



Your nose is before your eyes, then trust it 



first. 



A fool runs down the wind. 



Running rills cure many ills. 



Never take the open if you can keep the 

 cover. 



Never leave a straight trail if a crooked one 

 will do. 



If it's strange, it's hostile. 



Dust and water burn the scent. 



Never hunt mice in a rabbit- woods, or rab- 

 bits in a henyard. 



Keep off the grass. 



Inklings of the meanings of these were al- 

 ready entering the little ones' minds — thus, 

 ' Never follow what you can't smell,' was wise, 

 they could see, because if you can't smell it, 

 then the wind is so that it must smell you. 



One by one they learned the birds and beasts 

 of their home woods, and then as they were able 

 to go abroad with their parents they learned 

 new animals. They were beginning to think 

 they knew the scent of everything that moved. 

 But one night the mother took them to a field 

 where was a strange black flat thing on the 



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