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A SENTIMENTALIST ON FOXES 
It was inevitable in these tremendous times that 
among the many voices suggesting various drastic 
measures for our salvation, those of Mr. Brown 
and Mr. Smith, the poultry farmers, should be 
heard loud as any advocating the extirpation of 
foxes, a measure, they say, which would result in 
a considerable addition to the food supply of the 
country in the form of eggs and chickens. Even 
so do the fruit-growers remind us in each recurring 
spring that it would be an immense advantage to 
the country if the village children were given one 
or two holidays each week in March and April, and 
sent out to hunt and destroy queen wasps, every 
wasp brought in to be paid for by a bun at the 
public cost. That the wasp, an eater of ripe fruit, 
is also for six months every year a greedy devourer 
of caterpillars and flies injurious to plant life, is a 
fact the fruit-grower ignores. The fox, too, has 
his uses to the farmer, seeing that he subsists 
largely on rats, mice, and voles, but he has a greater 
and nobler use, as the one four-footed creature left 
to us in these islands to be hunted, seeing that 
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