AN INTERESTING SUMMER BOARDER. 



J. H. FISHER, JR. 



I hand you herewith a photo of a pet 

 fox and his summer camp. He was the 

 star boarder at one of the resorts at Milli- 

 nockett, Me., last summer. One of the 

 guides captured him in the woods when he 

 was a kitten, took him home, raised him 



tently for a time and try to estimate its 

 size, it may grow under your imagination 

 to be 10 feet wide and 6 to 8 feet high. As 

 a matter of fact, however, the house is 

 built of small birch sticks; is about 18 

 inches wide, 24 inches long, 20 inches high 



WHAT MONSTER IS THIS? 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY J. H. FISHER, JR 



on a bottle, and he soon grew to the full 

 stature of his kind. He was as tame and 

 as sociable as any dog. He would romp 

 and play with the children, or with the 

 dogs, or with the grown people, as freely 

 and as joyfully as any animal I ever 

 saw. He readily acquired the omnivorous 

 appetite of the dogs about camp and would 

 eat anything and everything that came 

 from the table. 



The picture presents a strange optical il- 

 lusion. Almost anyone looking at the 

 cabin would say it was 4 to 6 feet square 

 and of equal height. If you look at it in- 



at the eaves and 26 inches at the cone. It 

 is covered with miniature cedar splits or 

 shakes. The balcony in front is about 12 

 inches wide. 



Strangely enough, the proprietor of the 

 resort, when he closed his place for the 

 winter, left Reynard to hustle for himself; 

 so the animal is probably living on grouse, 

 snow buntings, mice and any other small 

 birds or quadrupeds he may be able to 

 capture. I shall be curious to know 

 whether he comes back to the hotel when 

 it opens at the beginning of the fishing 

 season. 



"So he gave you a dog?" 



"Yassir," answered Erastus Pinkley. 



"He must like you." 



"Well, I can't make out foh sho' wheth- 

 er he likes me or whether he don't like de 

 dog." — Popular Mechanics. 



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