THE STORY OF FAUST AND MARGUERITE 193 



One morning the author's Sunday School teach- 

 er, who lived on- the opposite side of the street 

 near the home of the parents of General U. S. 

 Grant, complained that the foxes had killed some 

 of his fine chickens; this was indignantly denied 

 by the boy, who declared that the foxes could not 

 kill the chickens, because they were securely 

 chained to the door of their den and he took the 

 neighbor in the yard to where Faust and Mar- 

 guerite lounged in front of their door with their 

 noses between their paws watching their visitor. 

 Wholly unconvinced the Sunday School teacher 

 turned away. Next General Grant's father com- 

 plained of the loss of chickens and several other 

 neighbors 



FILED COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE TWO FOXES. 



There was something uncanny about this work; 

 foxes have the reputation of being very sly, but no 

 one ever heard of a fox that could unchain itself 

 at night and then chain itself up again in the morn- 

 ing. Still each night the chickens continued to dis- 

 appear, and the storm clouds to threaten. So one 

 morning the boy arose very early to make investi- 

 gations; no wagons had passed that morning save 

 the milk-cart, and the white dust of the macadam- 

 ized street was undisturbed and any track or trail 

 might be easily discerned. 



Reaching diagonally across the white, dusty 

 street from the writer's front yard to the sidewalk 

 of his Sunday School teacher's, he discovered 



