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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
waited; but nothing showing up, I re- 
laxed enough to note the beauty of the 
rays of the climbing sun glancing on 
the quiet waters of the lake far below 
me. As I looked, there came to my ear 
a dainty patter on the leaves from the 
opposite side of a thicket just above me 
and I knew some living thing was moy- 
ing my way. “A chipmunk” I thought, 
“possibly a partridge, at any rate I’ll 
be ready.” On came the rustling still 
sounding closer and closer and as I 
watched, suddenly from behind the 
thicket, out trotted a red fox not 
twenty feet away. My shells were 
loaded with number eight shot for par- 
tridges, too tiny for fox shooting, but 
that did not matter. At that short 
range poor Reynard stood no chance 
and I carried the carcass in triumph 
to the house where the old man took 
off the pelt for me and stretched it 
over a thin board remarking as he 
worked, “That’s the old vixen that has 
been stealing ours and the neighbors’ 
chickens for the last three years; the 
wimmin folks of this neighborhood sure 
owe you a vote of thanks.” 
NE election morning, Joe, our local 
Editor, and myself, after doing our 
duty at the polls as early as the opening 
of the booths would allow, started out 
on one of those objectless hunts that 
indoor workers love when comes a holi- 
day. Coming to a piece of woods about 
two miles out where we generally made 
our initial drive, we separated, travers- 
ing parallel valleys with the idea of a 
possible shot at a partridge, knowing 
that elusive bird was here. In descend- 
ing the pine-covered slope to my loca- 
tion at the bottom of the vale over a 
noiseless slippery carpet of pine need- 
les, I caught sight of a fox perhaps 
twenty rods away jumping up and down 
erratically over the surface of a little 
marshy spot where *grew long rank 
grasses and weeds. The way was open 
of timber growth along the swale and 
I could see him plainly; evidently he 
was catching mice and from his quick 
darts here and there in the long grass, 
he seemed to have unearthed a nest of 
them. , Knowing that another step 
would discover me to the vigilant 
hunter, I took a long hopeless shot and 
watched him regretfully as he streaked 
like a flash up and over the hill into 
the valley where I knew Joe was on the 
lookout. My thought of “O if he will 
only cross my partner’s path” was in- 
terrupted by the report of a gun, and 
rushing over the top, there was Joe 
holding Reynard aloft by the brush and 
shouting, “He almost ran over me.” It 
was a young fox, poorly versed in fox 
lore; evidently an orphan, or he would 
never have been working overtime when 
he should be safely holed up sleeping 
and laying plans for the coming night. 
ON another occasion it was early 
morning and I was making record 
time across lots to reach my favorite 
mushroom field, gather in the spoils 
ahead of the other fellow and get back 
to business without being seriously 
missed. Crossing a meadow at the foot 
of the ridge, bordered by a forest 
growth that reached clear up to the 
railway, I noticed beyond a knoll ahead 
of me, a concourse of a dozen or more 
crows circling low, cawing vociferously 
and darting groundward beyond my line 
of vision on the opposite side of the 
knoll. It seemed to me at the time 
that these crows were acting queerly 
for such wary robbers, but my thoughts 
were on mushrooms and as I walked up 
to the crest of the knoll and looked 
down the other side, I saw the cause of 
their agitation! They had intercepted 
a big dog fox in the middle of this 
field, far from his native haunts in the 
woods and were having all sorts of fun 
with him, pecking and clawing his back 
and head, dodging his snapping jaws 
and fending paws and skilfully inter- 
cepting him when he tried to retreat. 
They ’compassed him on every side and 
gave him no time to prove his inborn 
craftiness. It was an interesting spec- 
tacle, one that John Burroughs or old 
Aesop himself would have delighted in. 
So wrapped up were both parties in 
the contest that I stood an interested 
spectator long enough to enjoy every 
detail, but one old crow finally saw me, 
gave the alarm and the arena was 
cleared in a moment while I trudged on 
for my mushrooms. 
Y son, as town clerk, writes many 
hundred shooting licenses in and 
about my home town every year. For 
the benefit of the Conservation Com- 
mission, that it may keep tabs on the 
amount of game shot and trapped in 
every district of the State, he is re- 
quired to take from each applicant a 
sworn list of all the game he bagged the 
previous year. I have looked over these 
lists with an eye to the status of Bre’r 
Fox and amongst the ‘thousands of 
squirrels, rabbits, pheasants and other 
small game listed, I fail to find 
more than a meager half dozen of red 
foxes. 
And so by virtue of his cleverness, 
the fox lives and thrives. My experi- 
ences, covering more than fifty years, 
prove that he will not down. Since he 
is sought no more by those old-timers 
who one time asked no better sport than 
listening to the music of the hound 
while waiting patiently for a shot, and 
so long as the isolated hunt clubs find 
surcease in the anise bag: and the an- 
nual hunt ball, our children’s ¢hildren 
will still at times see his graceful form 
—for Reynard is in our midst to stay. 
It will identify you. 
