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Title: Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938 Underwood, William Lyman, phot
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rch-enemy, man ; and in this country, where fox-hunting has not yet become common, the fox needs allhis clever wits to evade the cruel traps of the relent-less trapper who means business and not sport. It isa fair fight, though, between the fox and the trapper ;but the fox-hunters childish sport offers the fox nochance; it is all rank injustice ; he must run to hisdeath and make a holiday for idle men and a packof dogs. In spite of his adversaries the sagacious fox stillretains his place throughout the wilder parts of thecountry, and given some proper consideration he willcontinue to live without making serious inroads onthe shiftless farmers defenseless chicken roost. It isdoubtful whether he ever gets a chance to rob a manof thrift. Our failure to recognize the common THE FARMERS SLY NEIGHBOR. 217 rights of life among the animals often blinds us tothe fact that wild creatures are really beneficent other, and servants m one way or an-man is generally the oneIt is quite naturalthe fox
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With a bedraggled hen. benefited,to picturewith a be-draggled henin his mouth ;but, as a matterof fact, he de-stroys a score ofsuch creatures asrats, woodchucks,rabbits, and moles,to every single hen. I know this by experience, fora casual examination of the vicinity of a foxs holelast summer revealed the truth beyond a doubt; butto be quite candid, I must admit that another foxsretreat revealed more chickens feathers than wouldguarantee my proportion of one to twenty. But all sorts of things and weatherMust be taken in togetherTo make up a yearAnd a sphere, and it happened that this particular fox took up hisresidence within a convenient distance of two shift-less-looking farms. 218 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. Not only are we apt to lose sight of the beneficentphase of wild life, but we are quite as prone to for-get that it possesses any joy. We think the foxstruggles for existence. What does he know aboutstruggling for food and shelter ? It is a joy to himto creep stealthily

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