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 He thinks like lightning, and then acts like chain lightning.

In a fight with a dog he always draws the first blood, and although he is no match for a gritty dog when cornered, yet he often beats off dogs several times his size, by his shear grit and seeming fearlessness.

The fox that is most closely associated with red fox is his first cousin, the cross fox. His range is throughout western British Columbia, and Alaska, and also in Utah and Idaho. Cross fox is a cross between the red fox and the black fox.

He has a dark colored cross on his shoulders, a steel gray body and head, a big black tail with a snow white tip, and black legs.

The swift fox is the smallest of all the foxes, and probably not much swifter than the rest of the family. He is found on the great plains of the Rio Grande up to Saskatchewan, and his color is a beautiful silver gray with a tinge of yellow.

The Arctic fox is snow white during the cold months, while in the summer he is some-