CHAPTER XIII 
FOXES AND FOX-FARMING 
We have in North America several different 
sorts of foxes. The red fox is the most wide- 
spread and important of these. A large form 
of it dwells in southern Alaska, and another 
variety, or species, is peculiar to Newfound- 
land. Then, in the West, are two small foxes, 
the kit or swift fox of the central plains, and 
the big-eared swift of southern California and 
Arizona. 
The kit-foxes of the west. These last are 
handsome grizzled-gray and yellowish little 
animals, with keen, interesting faces, tall, alert 
ears, and the ability to run like a streak. Each 
has a full measure of the cunning of its harried 
race, and makes a good living during all the 
warmer half of the year at the expense of mice, 
spermophiles and gophers, but in winter, when 
most of these are safe under ground, it must 
have a harder time, and resort to various foxy 
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