February, 1922 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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just as that time. I had had enough. 
Of course I feigned displeasure, register- 
ing surprise and disconsolation, at the 
prospect of having to go home just then. 
I had given up any idea of getting a 
fox and I knew that Fig wanted to get 
rid of me as badly as I wanted to get 
rid of him. So we started home. Little 
did I think that I was still to get my fox 
that day, or should I call it night? Any- 
how the evening star was floating like a 
distant arc-light in the west when I shot 
; him and ended a perfect day. 
I GOT the fox in the picture by hav- 
ing him called to me moose fashion. 
I have called crows and squirrels and I 
have stopped a running deer with a 
Ba-a-h like a sheep, but this fox-calling 
was a new one. Fig and I were trailing 
I along over ridges and through valleys, 
i over hills and through dales, up and 
down, up and down. That’s what fox- 
hunting consists of. You need a good 
set of brakes and just as you get them 
set you have to take off the brake and 
put on the gas for an upgrade. 
Suddenly Fig stopped and waited for 
me. I could feel that something im- 
portant was on his mind because he had 
not waited for me in four hours nor had 
he even passed me a word, not even 
talked about the weather. But there he 
stood with hand raised for caution. I 
went ahead as I like to think my Ameri- 
can Indian ancestors did. Before I 
reached Fig I could distinctly hear over 
the ridge we were . about to top, the 
plaintive, weird barking of a fox. 
Once at his side Fig grasped me by 
I the shoulder and led me like a pup into 
a nearby evergreen thicket. He pointed 
in the direction of the barking fox and 
left me. Words were useless. There 
was that fox just over the ridge baying 
at the moon (or something) and out 
! of sight and wind of us. Fig stole back 
' through the valley we had just come 
through and slid into some hemlocks on 
the ridge that we had just come over. 
. Then another fox began to bark right 
, at the very spot I felt sure Fig was 
hidden. I knew it was Fig! The boys 
. had told me he had called more than 
one fox within reach of his own gun 
and shot him and now he was a hundred 
, yards back of me on another ridge coax- 
, ing the sly one to come over and spoon. 
As soon as Fig butted in the fox quit 
, barking. So did Fig. There was ten 
; minutes of silence, or maybe it was only 
ten seconds. Then Mr. Fox spoke again 
, and Fig answered with a real brotherly 
message. 
Instantly there was a black head 
silhouetted against the dusky sky back of 
i the ridge over me. There was the fox 
looking for his long-lost comrade. He 
was not thirty yards from where I stood. 
In less time that it takes to relate I had 
shoved a dozen chilly No. 4’s into that 
fox’s vest and collar. He died in his 
tracks. Fig came over and surveyed 
the kill. To me it was a prize that I had 
never won before. Fig grunted some- 
thing about it being a kind of a small 
cuss. I hardly heard him. I had shot 
my fox ! And such a day it had been 
and with such a companion ; such a fool 
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