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lar. The next morning when the cellar was visited 

 each of the foxes was discovered to be occupying 

 a window; this incident may appear to be 

 trifling, but it did not so appear to the boy, because 

 each window-sill was higher than his head and as 

 near as he can now calculate, they must have been 

 almost six feet above the floor, which was a pretty 

 good jump for cubs. Before the foxes had re- 

 mained long in his possession the Kentucky school- 

 boy was ready to believe that his pets could easily 

 have jumped from the ground into the second-story 

 window of the house; that they never did make 

 this jump was no proof to his mind that they could 

 not make it if they tried. 



THE FOXES BECAME VERY TAME 



and were not vicious, but they would bite when 

 there was something to be obtained by using their 

 teeth. 



Once when the writer's baby sister was watch- 

 ing the little foxes at play, Faust discovered that 

 the child was eating a big round, corn johnny-cake; 

 the Eastern readers probably have never seen a 

 real johnny-cake, and for their benefit it may be 

 well to explain that this article of food is made 

 from corn-meal and water, patted with the hands 

 until it is about the size of a saucer and about an 

 inch thick, it is then fried in grease until it is a rich 

 brown color on both sides ; being made of the sweet 

 field corn which grows in the Southwest; it is not 

 sweetened with sugar, and does not taste so much 



