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MASTER REYNARD

The History of a Fox

From Animal Autobiographies by J. C. Tregarthen

Revised by

JANE FIELDING







New York
A. L. Chatterton Co.

Copyright, 1913
A. L. Chatterton Co.




MASTER REYNARD


The earth where I was born was far down the face of a steep cliff
and opened on a sloping shelf of turf, from the edge of which the
undercliff fell sheer to the sea. The entrance we used most was
slightly above the level of the springy s