Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Foxy. [ARTICLE]

Foxy.

Or one occasion, a fox having been surprised simulated death with such exactness, that the owner of the Slaughtered poultry thought that Master Reynard had overgorged himself; and perished of; a surfeit, like one of our own kings. Congratulating herself on the fate of the robber, she picked him up by the tail, and threw him out of the hen-house, when the fbx picked himself up and scampered off. Another times a peasant, finding a fox inahan-house, aimed a blow at him, which apparently killed him. The man then took the fox up by the tail, slung him over his and carried him out of the farm yard,lntending, most probably, to decorate his house with the brush, his barn with the head and paws, and his person with the skin, if so, has meditations were speedily destroyed, for the fox had only shammed and, finding his tnveftad phsilion uncomfortable, took measures to relieve himself by administering a severe ’ bite where his head was dangling. The affrighted peasant immediately dropped the fox, who set off' as fast as he could, leaving his would-be captor in a state of mingled fright, pain, and fury. Mr. Lloyd tells us of another fox, who displayed as much sagacity in getting oat of an equally bad scrape. The animal had been caught in a pit-fall, and was lying apparently helpless at the bottom. A very stout peasant then brought a ladder, and having lowered it into the pit, descended slowly,: in. order te destroy the fox.' Reynard, however, had not the slightest intention of being destroyed; so just as the stout peasant placed his foot on the ground, the fox sprang on his back, then on bis shoulders, and from thence to thp edge of the pit, thereby deferring the intended execution to an indefinite period, and injuring in no small degree the temper of the man by whose means he had escaped.—Our Own Jfyreade.