L'Estrange: A Cock and a Fox-Case.

There was a Fox-Case set up near a Hen-Roost, to hold forth the Doctrine of Terror and Example. A Cock spy'd it, and scour'd away from't, as fast as his Legs and his Wings could carry him, and the Birds hooted at him for't. Hark ye my Masters (says he), there are Live-Foxes as well as Dead Ones, by the Token one of 'em had me by the Back but t'other day, a nd a Thousand Pound to a Nut-shell I had never got off again. And pray tell me now, if any of you had but been in my condition, whether the very Print of a Foxes Foot would not have started ye; and much more the Image of him in his Skin.

The Burnt Child Dreads the Fire.

Source: L'Estrange 400.

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