CHAPTER XV 



THE STORY OF FAUST AND MARGUERITE 



FAUST AND MARGUERITE TWO YOUNG RED FOXES FAUST 

 STEALS A JOHNNY CAKE CUB FOXES JUMP SIX FEET 

 HIGH WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE HOW THEY DISFIG- 

 URED THE LAWN THE AUTHOR'S FIRST DRAWING FROM 

 NATURE MORE ROOM FOR FOXES AND BOY FOXES STEAL 

 GEN. GRANT'S CHICKENS THEY STEAL CHICKENS FROM ALL 



THE NEIGHBORS HOW THEY DID IT WITHOUT BEING 

 UNCHAINED A SUSPICIOUS TRAIL IN THE DUST SHOWING 

 THE WHITE FEATHER WHAT THEY NEVER COULD LEARN 

 FOXES AND DOGS NATURALLY ASSOCIATE TOGETHER 

 HOW A FOX BARKS THE SOLITARY FOX HUNT THE 

 SHREWD COUNTENANCE OF A FOX HOW REYNARD THREW 

 THE DOG OFF THE SCENT THE HOUND LOOPS THE LOOP 

 ANOTHER SOLITARY FOX HUNT THE FOX WATCHES THE 

 HOUND ON ITS (THE FOX's) TRAIL JIP AND THE PIKE 

 COUNTY FOX THE FOX MAKES A FATAL MISTAKE THE 

 BALL OF FUR WHICH ROLLED DOWN A HILL FOX's TRACKS 

 IN THE SNOW V.HAT DOES HE DO IT FOR. 



\Vhile the author was a schoolboy in Kentucky, 

 he was made supremely happy by a gift of 



TWO YOUNG RED FOXES, FAUST AND MARGUERITE. 



When the truck backed up to the front sidewalk 

 and delivered the packing case containing the 

 foxes there was no place ready for their reception, 

 so the box was carried down cellar. After the cel- 

 lar doors were closed, a board was knocked off the 

 box and the long-legged, wolfish looking young- 

 sters allowed to escape to the confines of the cel- 



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