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 trot down the main village street in the small hours of the early morning.

The fox about which I am going to write, and the one which is most familiar to my readers, is the Red Fox, whose range is throughout the northern part of the United States and Canada.

His color is a variety of shades of red, and rarely are two red foxes marked alike.

Although the novice seeing the fox at a distance would say that he is as large as a fair sized dog, yet when he is stripped of his long warm coat, he is the slightest built animal that I know of. The very lankiest greyhound is heavy and cumbersome compared with him. His little legs which carry him for hours over the roughest country, keeping him out of the reach of hounds which weigh five times as much as he does, are no larger than a lead pencil. His head which holds such a fertile brain, is fairly snakey, while his greatest girth is not much more than a man's wrist.

There is not an ounce of fat on him. His muscles are like whipcord.