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 had killed many frogs, and squirrels that Father Fox had brought home alive for them.

They soon became quite expert in mouse hunting, and would stand as patiently as their parents above the runways of the mice, which were very easily smelled out in the grass roots.

One day Father Fox discovered one of those dangerous men creatures in the woods pounding upon a tree. He watched him for a long time, and finally the tree came crashing to earth, and Father Fox ran away in great haste.

When the man had gone home and the woods no longer rang with the sound of his axe, Father and Mother Fox took the four little foxes to where he had been chopping wood and together they investigated all the sights and smells where the man had been.

The old foxes smelled out the tracks of the man and then invited the small foxes to sniff the strange scent. They had never smelled anything like it before, and although they did not at all know what it meant, yet this