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"The fox in the photograph was discovered quite dead in this curious
position on the morning of November 17th, 1903, by Mr. H. Sparling,
dairyman, Tadcaster. The wooden erection is a poultry house, and the
hole from which the fox is hanging is, when the door is shut for
the night, the only possible means of entering or leaving the same.
Reynard had evidently entered by this aperture, for inside were
discovered three fowls he had killed. (These are shown at the foot of
the photograph.) In leaving by the same means he stuck fast, the hole
narrowing to quite a point at the bottom, and the more he struggled the
faster he had got, till at last he could struggle no longer, and death
intervened, probably from exhaustion."--Mr. John H. Hull, chemist,
Tadcaster.