That hounds will stick to their fox, twist and turn though he may, in spite of hares, is a fact that is often proved in this country, when a lucky view has once more put them on good terms with the hunted fox, at a time when half the field have been crying " hare. It is also true that there was a half - tame fox once upon a time chained up at Tangley Hall in the inner yard, and I have heard many speculative wiseacres in the public - houses turn that to great accountthough they could not but admit that " there was never one there in Miss Silvia 's time. Well, crafty fox, I 'll hunt ye, by my troth, Deal ye so closely ! Squire Savage, the fox - hunter, who, like Hippolitus of old, chased the wily fox and timid hare, and had never yet acknowledged the empire of beauty, was subdued by the artless sweetness of Delia. Īh, Nell, you little fox ! " " Told you what, Nick ? " Was he, too, a party to the murderous plan ?įormerly this island contained great numbers of silver gray foxes. When trying to explain how this idea of successfully raising " silver " black foxes took such a main grip on his imagination, he brought out a batch of clippings which he had managed to get hold of in some manner, Max could not even guess how. What a cunning old fox it is, to be sure.
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