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 him he was rushing through the underbrush at about a mile a minute.

"But that wasn't all. Another time I found him in a terrible plight. It was a cold winter morning and he had tried to lick blood from a rail on the track. His tongue had stuck to the cold steel. The train was rushing down upon him from one direction, while I came from another with my rifle. I raised the gun to shoot him, when he looked up into my eyes with a look that melted me. I could not shoot him after that; instead I freed him from the track. Two seconds more of delay and the train would have got us both."

"Bud, that was fine of you! I am proud of you. A fellow who has got a soft spot in his heart for the dumb creatures, even though they be only foxes, is a boy that a girl can trust."

The little car whirred up to the fox farm about half an hour after Redcoat and Blue Lady had disappeared in the nearby woods.

Mr. Jennings was much surprised to see the young people, and even more surprised