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"Of course I remember," said the landlord. "Just the end of the season, when two vixens had litters in the wood! You don't suppose Bean was going to let that old butcher, Tony, find a fox in Dillsborough at that time." Bean was his lordship's head gamekeeper in that part of the country. "How many foxes had we found there during the season?" "Two or three," suggested Botsey.
Why, if I hadn't watched my step, I'd been married a dozen times. These little frilled and powdered vixens have nearly got me.... If nature used half as much care in keeping people healthy and free from accidents, as she does in getting them here it would be a happier world. But that is not nature's concern She leaves that to the doctors!" "Well, how does the time go?
At length she succeeded in seizing hold of one of the earrings an imitation pear in yellow glass which she pulled out and slit the ear, and the blood flowed. "They're killing each other! Separate them, the vixens!" exclaimed several voices. The other women had drawn nearer. They formed themselves into two camps.
There was a tumultuous flight to Ireland, to France, to the Colonies, to vaults and garrets in less notorious parts of the capital; and when, on the prescribed day, the Sheriff's officers ventured to cross the boundary, they found those streets where, a few weeks before, the cry of "A writ!" would have drawn together a thousand raging bullies and vixens, as quiet as the cloister of a cathedral.
These movements were not made in silence: for the falcons, as they flew, kept uttering their shrill cries that sounded like the voice of a pair of angry vixens. "Their young must be near?" suggested Karl. "No, sahib," said Ossaroo, "no nest no chickee. Fritz he hab suppa de piece ob meat ob da ibex. Churk wantee take de dog suppa away." "Oh! Fritz is eating something, is he?" said Caspar.
Too good for banning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. 'I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, 'talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other.
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