64, THE LIFE OF A FOX.

“ Hah! is it so?—I am off.”

“He is gone, and grins defiance! This mongrel
will think nothing of destroying us by the dozen;
but he may suffer for it yet.”

And now, my friends, as we have heard the
mongrel’s account of himself, let us hear Craven’s
story. Open thy lips and throw thy tongue
freely ; tell us how many times thou hast beaten
these vexatious hounds, and be not chary of thy

experience,