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HUS it came about that once again there was enacted in the clump of spruces, the drama of the fox family. It was very much as the previous drama of the foxes had been, only to Redcoat it was much more interesting. Then, he had been one of the small foxes but now he was the head of a family just as his sire had been the year before.

Now he was the one to be eternally on guard, to hunt for the rest of the family, and if there was not food enough for all, to go hungry himself.

Just as his sire had done before him, Redcoat now brought each day the pile of field mice and laid them at the mouth of the den for Fluffy. Later on he brought live frogs and snakes for the young foxes to kill, and