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A DESCRIPTION OF 
THE FOX. (Canis Vulpes.) 
THIS well-known animal is produced in most countries, 
and varies much in size and colour. In the North of 
Europe some are white, some red, and others black. Their 
abode is generally on the skirt of a wood, in a hole which 
some other animal has either voluntarily left or been driven 
from. Nature, who endowed the fox with sagacity, craft, 
and cunning, has not, however, allotted him a long life ; 
and being classed by her among the dog tribe, the duration 
of his existence does not exceed twelve or fifteen years. 
His bite is tenacious and dangerous, as the severest blows 
cannot make him quit his hold ; his eye is most significant, 
and expressive of every passion, as love, fear, hatred, &c. 
The Fox is the greatest enemy to the poultry-yard, which 
he depopulates often in the course of one night. But 
