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 him now, Bud. You have got to buy him back and set him free."

Bud argued and expostulated, but all to no purpose. So, it was finally agreed that they would get an early start for the fox farm on the following morning.

It was just about the time that Kitty and Bud were having their solemn conversation as to their right to keep the price of Redcoat's freedom, when he set to work to do something for himself. From the digging that he had done on previous days, he had discovered that the wire fence ran back for a foot and a half underground into the pen but just at this point he had one day luckily dug a hole under the netting almost as far as the perpendicular portion of the fence. Fortunately for him Blue Lady had concluded he was spoiling their pen, so she had at once filled up the hole and padded down the dirt with her paws, thus this digging had not been discovered by the keeper of the farm. Redcoat very quickly threw out the soft dirt that he had dug the day before and started in on his enterprise, burrowing un-