People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — The Fox in the Stable Clock. [ARTICLE]

The Fox in the Stable Clock.

Foxes, when pursued, get lost sometimes in queer places. Lord Willoughby de Broke, in the November Badminton, tells of hunting a tired fox into Ragely stablevard and the hounds evinced the greatest desire to get onto the roof. His lordship called them off, fearing they might fall into the yard and be killed. It was afterward ascertained that the fox had jumped onto the roof and made his way along it as far as the stable clock, among the works of which he ensconced himself. He gave the clockmaker who came a few hours later to wind it up a rare fright.