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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)

'; An event which would seem incredible if the facts were not attested by Mr. A. N. Hornby ■ and the farmer interested; was associated with a fox's raid on a hencote at Chorley, Cheshire. The farmer heard a noise .in his hencote, and suspecting that a fox had raided it, slipped over ; the hen slide a bag, into which Reynard bolted when a farm-hand entered the cote. Inside the hencote eleven fine fowls lay dead. The farmer loaded the dead fowls and the bagged fox. in a trap, and drove with it to Mr. Walter. Starkey, the Hunt Poultry Fun* 1 secretary. Mr. Starkey was not at home", but Mr. Hornby happened to be at Marbury Hall, and was an eye-witness of what came out of the bag. - When the bag was untied in a loose box Reynard bolted, and then but' of the bag walked a fowl and on to the floor rolled an egg. The fox in his flight from the hencote knocked the live j fowl into the bag, and the egg must have kbeen laid in the bast. i