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A Run 



stiff, and he walks in leisurely fashion to a refuge he 

 knows of, having first of all tried the familiar earth and 

 to his very great astonishment found that there is no 

 way in. Then he wearily curls himself up. It has been 

 a hard fight and a desperately near thing at the finish ; 

 but he is still a fox, and not a disrupted collection of 

 half-digested fragments. 



