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Cunning of a Fox.

A fox on emergency will sham death to perfection. A master of hounds once noosed a fox in a whip as he bolted before a terrier. The fox appeared to be strangled. When held up by the scruff of the neck his eyes were seen to be closed, his jaws gaped, and the body hung […]

A Fox Story.

Any body who has heard Rory O’Mory’s famous story of the fox, in Lover’s amusing play of that name, will confess that it is not quite equal to the following, which we get from the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, a Vermont paper: Last week in the town of Newbury, a fox hunter, with two hounds, got […]

Tame Fox; Is Trained.

C. H. Brantley Smashes Long Accepted Theory That Wolf Family Cannot Be Caught. Has A Fox Which Will Obey Like Dog. Will Lie Down, Jump Through a Hoop and do Other Things. It has always been considered that to tame a fox, a wolf or an animal of the wolf family, or a common cotton […]

A Fox’s Stratagem.

A fox is bound to be a thief whenever he has a chance to steal, says London Answers. He can no more help taking a goose than a badly trained cat can help taking a chop from the larder. There was a tame fox that was chained in a yard to keep him out of […]

Huzza For The Coon.

In the village of Pottsville, Pa., a few weeks since, a handbill, of which the following is a copy, was posted up for public perusal: The Fox and the Coon! Grand Contest! A grand contest between a little red Fox, and a real live Coon, the representative of Van Buren and Clay, will be had […]

A Cunning Fox Caught at Last.

A farmer of York recently set a trap to catch a cunning fox which had been annoying him considerably by its midnight visits among the poultry. At fourteen successive visits to it he found the trap sprung, a stick of wood between its jaws, and the bait eaten up. The circumstance, so often repeated, surprised […]

A Foxy Story.

The fox which Mr. Fairgrieves now has occupies a yard back of the store, to which Mr. Fairgrieves’ dog has free access. The dog and fox are great friends. They frolic together, play “no end” of jokes on each other, and live in the most perfect harmony, save at ‘meal time.” The discussion that a […]

Foxes.

     A young fox taken from a litter was placed with a litter of kittens at Watkinsville, Ga., a few days ago. The mother cat at once adopted it, and now evinces a much greater interest in it than in any of the rest of her family.

Dogs.

     Recently, near Titusville, Pa., a hound was found lying exhausted in a field, and beside the dog was a dead fox. It was afterward discovered that the hound had followed the fox for nearly forty miles, from the vicinity of Harstown, Crawford county.

From The Pennsylvania Settler. [Hunting]

On Friday the 4th instant, about 700 men of the neighboring townships, formed a hunting party. The signal for proceeding was given on Frenchtown Mountain, which was answered by all the horns of the hunters, comprising a circuit of 40 miles, in the space of 15 minutes. The hunters then progressed towards a centre in […]