Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1947

Foxy. In Burford, England, a nimble fox leaped safely over a broken electric wire, foxily led eleven baying hounds to their deaths by shock. In Luray, Va., another fox jumped into a well, drowned with three of the four pursuing hounds that followed.

Even. In Kankakee, Ill., Doris Keller dramatically tried to get even with her husband for blackening her eye, succeeded only in getting sick when her solid base of beers neutralized the poison she swallowed.

Repentance. In Philadelphia, an unknown thief crept to Mrs. Joseph Martin's house, tied her $125 cameo locket, stolen eight years ago, to the doorknob with an...

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