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Adventures of Ruford Foxtail was written specifically to enlighten children with a few animals that are not generally found in a children’s story, i.e. a mole named Ginger, night crawlers and a shrew named, Chien Shu. Although Ruford, a red fox, and his best friend, another fox named Kit, have a few adventures growing up in the country - they are in over their heads when they are accidentally towed to the city of Chicago while they hid in an old abandon car on a farm in the early forties. The book has ten full pages to color and comes with a small box of crayons. $18.50 (includes postage and delivery) Let me know if you’re interested by e-mailing me I’ll give you an address. Great gift.
Beginning of Chapter One:
It was a miserable night. Giant drops of water fell from the black sky. Each raindrop pounded and splattered against the old wooden boards inside the buckboard wagon lying in the field. With the rear wheel totally missing and the other three rotting away, the back of the wagon fell into the soft dirt. The rear axle with the wheel missing was buried deep into the ground. Tall grass and weeds grew wild, spinning around the spokes and up through the holes in the bottom of the buckboard. They were always reaching for the light and sun during the daylight hours.
The dark night was lit up every few minutes with lightning bolts that split the night in half, clouds followed with thundering applause. Each and every time the lightning flashed, the yellowish red coat of Papa Foxtail could be seen crouching beneath the wagon, close to the entrance of the den.
Almost frozen in time, the male red fox remained very still, only his ears moved, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, picking up the evening sounds. The one sound that concerned him most was the high-pitched yapping barks that came from the den beneath the ground.
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