THE FOX. 
Jane, the girl who has the care of the hens at the 
farm by the wood, has lost two hens and a duck 
the last few days. She took a boy with her, and 
went to see if a rat had been in the fowl pen, but 
they saw no sign of one. They went all over the 
farm yard to try and find out the fate of the poor 
hens ; at last, in the wire that had been put up to 
keep the hens out of the wood, they came to a 
part that was all torn down, so that a gap had been 
made. Jane and the boy went into the wood, and 
when they had gone a long way, far from any path, 
they saw the head of the poor duck, and part of 
the wing of a fowl : the wing was not far from a 
deep dell, and in this dell a Fox had its hole, so 
