Tin: PET FOX. Down the road there lived a blacksmith who had two pet raccoons,They were tame,—very tame. They had a place to live in whichthey had fixed as they liked it. They used to run across the roadfrom their home to a spring, to drink. A boy who did not knowabout the blacksmiths raccoons saw… … a drink. He chased it and caught it Then he came up to findHardie. Hardie, I ve found your fox! cried the boy. Hardie ran inhaste to look; but when he saw what the boy had brought hesaid, 0 dear! That is no fox at all. It is one of Mr. Gunnsraccoons. The boy took the raccoon back, and Hardie never…
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