Chapter II 



Foxes 



Red Fox — Black Fox — Gray Fox 



TN view of the extent to which the habits of 

 -^ foxes have been chronicled, almost since 

 the dawn of history, it would seem somewhat 

 presumptuous to attempt to add anything new. 

 In fact, the sentence just written strikes me now 

 as hackneyed and worn-out. 



But for all that, every encounter with the 

 creature itself, at liberty and living out its own 

 free life as it will, is bound to be a surprise and 

 a revelation to the observer. Not but what the 

 various accounts of fox habits are accurate enough 

 so far as facts go, but all the literature on the 

 subject, it seems to me, has failed signally to 

 render the image of the fox as he really is. 



The common red fox of this country is larger 

 and more wolfish than his cousin of the Old 



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