Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — Wiles of the Fox. [ARTICLE]

Wiles of the Fox.

A chap tells Tip of another fox story that is much harder to believe. His chained pet fox kept catching thq neighbors’ chickens, so he set himself in hiding to see how Reynard did the trick. When the fox was fed. Instead of eating the grub, he would nose and shove it just short of the length of his chain, then he would retire himself into the hiding of his lair or kennel. Pleasantly a bunch of silly chickens would cqme along and get busy, and Brer F6x had fresh, raw, juicy chicken for dinner, instead of the cold, cooked, human putty grub shoved at him with a stick. Although this is the day of dirty, petty, foxy tricks, all life is not a game of chickens and fox. Once in a while there is power and a hero behind the people’s pious wishes and prayers. When that happens the villain goes up Salt river fishing, or to the pen.