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  1. A Fox's Trick

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    A fox's trick
    24th January,1938
    The story is told of a man in this district who was in bed one night .About midnight he (he)heard a noise in the fowl house .He ran out and and on opening the door he saw a fox lying on the floor seemingly dead with a crowd of dead hens lying about him.The man turned around to get a pitch-fork to stick the fox and make sure he was dead when up
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. foxes (~151)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Torpey
    Gender
    Male