Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     About a dozen farmers boys in New Hampshire turned out one Saturday last winter to hunt down a fox that was known to have his lair in a hill. Reynard was finally routed out, and after leading the crowd a chase of ten miles he doubled back and his trail was lost near a certain farmhouse. Hunters and dogs beat around for two hours and then gave up. When they had departed the fox left the house by a broken window. He had entered the same way and concealed himself in a chimney. There was a fireplace but no fire, and no one would have thought of looking for him up there. He was so covered with soot when he got out that he was taken for a black fox.