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I cringe for him, when crack goes the gun! The fox squalls, picks himself up, and plunges over the brink of the mountain. The hunter has not missed his aim, but the oil in his gun, he says, has weakened the strength of his powder. The hound, hearing the report, comes like a whirlwind and is off in hot pursuit. Both fox and dog now bleed, the dog at his heels, the fox from his wounds.
She was painted a ruddy yellow everywhere except a broad line of white in front, like a fox's belly; and, like a fox, too, her feet and hands were painted black.
"And then I went upstairs, and came to a gallery, at the end of which was a door, on which was written: BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD, LEST THAT YOUR HEART'S BLOOD SHOULD RUN COLD. "It is not so, nor it was not so," said Mr. Fox. "And then and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women, all stained with their blood."
Here and there, as the fox crept stealthily among the blackthorns and the gorse-bushes, he stopped for a moment on the scent of a rabbit; but the night was not such as to induce Bunny to remain outside her cosy burrow in the bank.
"All right," said the old Goat, "I'll send the fox off, and come back in a few minutes to bring you some stale cabbage leaves." "A friend in need, is a friend indeed!" murmured the Goat-father; and went to sleep that night with more hope than he had felt since the moment of his capture.
"A thousand times!" he answered with quiet vehemence. "Understand, Miskodeed " He got no further. In the recesses of the wood a fox barked sharply, and a second later the sound was repeated in two different directions. "Ah," cried the Indian girl, "They come. Thou art too late. Thou wilt die for thy bright-faced woman now once."
Christian, alone of her family, was essentially as she had ever been, and, being of those whose inward regard is as searching as their outward observation, she knew it. Now, Larry had come back again, and in half-a-dozen sentences she knew that neither had he changed, and that with him her ancient leader had returned. "Don't holloa away an old fox. I want to kill a cub if I can.
What so fruitful a source of error as the notion of special divine illumination? No wonder that Fox and his followers were persecuted, for they set at nought the wisdom of the world and the customs and laws of ages.
We could hear that Zab was coming nearer, as we ran, and at last we heard a bang. "The little cuss has got him, I'll bet you. Come on, Ben." We ran on and came to the gully; and at the lower end of it was Amos, with my frock on, which reached down to the ground. He was holding up the fox, and Zab was jumping up and down. "Good boy, Amos! Now tell us about it."
If they had not seen his footprints in the sand they would have thought he flew. Cephalus and others stood on a hill and saw the race. The fox tried every art; he ran in a circle and turned on his track, the dog close upon him, with open jaws, snapping at his heels, but biting only the air. Cephalus was about to use his javelin, when suddenly he saw both dog and game stop instantly.
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