Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1837-12-19
PADDY'S STORY ABOUT a FOX.
BY s. LOVER, ESQ


paddy said the squire, perhaps Won
would favor the gentleman with that story
you once told me about n fox?'
sIndeed and ! will, PLACE your honor
said Paddy, though know full well not one
word iv it you believe, nor the gintlcman
won't neither, though you're akin me for il !;
but .uly want to laugh at me, and call me
great liar when my backs turned. Oh,
indeed, Pm not savin' you wouldn't do it as
soon fornnst my face, your honor, as you
often did before, and will again, and
SWELL, Paddy, say no more about that,
but let's have the story
Sure Pm losin' no time, only tellin' the
sin,lcman before hand that it. what they'll
be calm it lie, and indeed it is uncom
mon, sure enough; but you see, gin;lemcn,
YOU must remember that the fox is the cnn
ninest haste in the world, barrin' the wren.
Here Paddy was questioned why he con-
sidered the wren as cunning as the fox.
sWhv, sir, bekase all birds builds their
nest with one hole to it, except'n the wren
but the wren builds two holes on the pest,
so that fany inemy comes to disturb it on
the fox is cute to that degree, that there's
many fool to him, and by dad, the fox
could buy and sell many Christian, as
you'll see by and by, whin | tell you what
happened to wood ranger, that knew
wanst, and dacent man he was. Well,
you see ne came home one night, mighty
tired, for he was DAT with a party in the
domain, cock shootin, that day; and when
he got back to his lodge, he threw few
logs Of wood on the fire to keep himself
comfortable, and he took Whatever little
| mather he had for his supper, and after that
he felt himself SD tired, that he whit to bed.
But you're to understand that, though he
win, to bed, it was more for to rest himself
like, than to sleep, for it was early; and So
he iist whit into bed, and there he diverted
himself lookin at the fire, that was blazin as
merry as Bonfire on the hearth.
Well, as he was lying hathaway, jist
thnlin o. noihin' at all, what should come
into the place bat a fox? Bat must tell
you, that forget to tell you beforeq that the
rangers house was on the bordhers of the
wood, and he had no one to live with him
| but himself, barrin the dogs that he had the
care Of, that was his only companions, and
he had hole cut in the door, with a swing
| in board TO it, that the dogs might 60 in "l
oft as it PLACED 'em; and by dad, the fox
came ia. as told you, through the hole il
the door, as bold as ram, and walked over
to the fire, AMI set down f,,rninsf it.
i Now, it was mighty provolsin' that all the
dogs were out; they were rovin about the
woods, vo., see. loolsin for to ketch rabbits
20 ate, aud it so happened that there WASH
MS much as one individual dog in that place
and I'll go bail the fax knew that before h.
put his nose inside the ran gers lodge.
Well, the ranger WIS in hspcs that some
To- the dogs would corle and catch the chap
and he was 10Th to stir hand or fnt himself
aboard q frightening The fox away; but b.
could hardly keep his temper at all, whcl
he saw the fox t.ke his pipe aft o. The hob
J where he Iifi II afore he wentfo bed and nut
] tin the ho~tl Of the pipe into the FIRE to kin
die it, CTS as true as I'm here,1 ho beral
i 10 spoke forninss the fire, as natural as an,
lother man you over seen. ss
sMusha, bad luck to voar irnputlence
you long tailed blackglardr said tlreran